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Friday, December 20, 2002

Proper PNG Support in IE -- 3:39 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

One of the great frustrations I face as a webmaster is the incomplete PNG support in Internet Explorer, especially with alpha transparency. I know that nobody usually pays attention to these things, but despite that I signed the online petition urging Microsoft to get IE to fully support PNG. PNG allows for transparency without being limited to GIF's 256 colors and draconian licensing. The funny thing is that MS promised full PNG support . . . in IE4! Four years later, still no transparency. There is an ugly scripting hack you can use to get around it, but there's no reason anyone should have to resort to that. If the Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, and Konqueror teams can figure it out, why can't MS?

And while they're at it, they could get around to fully supporting CSS1 and CSS2 too. While I'm dreaming, I'd like a pony.

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