[thelist] Why PNG is so cool (and IE5/Mac is great)

[Jonathan_A_McPherson at rl.gov]

All,

Mozilla 1.0 running on the PC delivers on PNG alpha-transparency too, so if
you've got that, the site may be worth a visit -- it is one of the few
examples I've seen of that particular PNG feature used in the wild.

J.

-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Mann [mailto:boris at bmannconsulting.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:06 AM
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Subject: [thelist] Why PNG is so cool (and IE5/Mac is great)


If you've got IE5 running on the Mac, go to this site:

http://www.panic.com/audion/faces.php

If you click on the little magnifying glass icon, a preview of the face
(skins for the Audion MP3 player) appear...with full transparency and
drop shadows. What a great use of standards!

You can go look if you're running something else...it would be
interesting to see what happens. In IE6, transparency for PNGs isn't
supported (at least not in this manner) so you get a gray background.

--
Boris Mann
http://www.bmannconsulting.com