[thelist] PNG and alpha channel ?

[Lachlan Cannon]

--- Andrew Clover <and at doxdesk.com> wrote:
> Tony Crockford <tonyc at boldfish.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > It seems that there is a workaround for png24 graphics
> displaying grey in
> > Internet Explorer 6.0 that requires the use of the
> AlphaImageLoader filter.
> 
> Yes. Aaron Boodman has packaged this workaround up into a
> lovely little
> script at -
> 
>   http://www.youngpup.net/?request=/snippets/sleight.xml
> 
> - which allows you to just write the <img>s as normal;
> the script fixes
> them up without you having to write any special markup.
> It works in 5.5 too.
> 
> Unfortunately it only goes for foreground images, the
> workaround can't
> really work for tiling backgrounds.


I can't help but wonder why you would need transparency in
a background image?

Lach

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