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Re: Image transparency...
There are several workarounds for png opacity about on the web - this is
the first one I found but I know I've read others in the past too
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/pngopacity/
Ian Lowe wrote:
>Hi folks - I'm making a nice web interface up that's modelled on MCE.
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>I'm making up 3Dish buttons with nice drop shadows, and have saved them
as
>PNG to maintain that transparency info..
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>And they look really really nice :D
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>*but* pop over to IE6 (I use firefox by default) and they look
*hideous* no
>transparency, a strange banding effect - almost as if it were only an 8
bit
>image.
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>I thought about saving as gif, but the lower colour depth impacts the
shadow
>effects quite badly.
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>The big question - is there a way around this?
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>The obvious one is to switch all of my PCs across to firefox (something
I am
>going to do anyways) but it would be nice to be able to distribute this
skin
>(it's for Tony T's Medianet project) and saying "only works in
firefox"
>seems just as, well, closed as websites saying "Best with
IE".
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>It would be nice if there was a more open solution.
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>I.
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