[olug] Microsoft Explorer versus PNG

[Sean Kelly]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:00:23PM -0600, Mat wrote:
> Hi there:
> 
> This isn't a 100% Linux-related issue, but I thought the list members
> might find this useful.  After spending more than a few hours trying to
> make a PNG file render properly in various versions of
> Microsoft's Internet Explorer (including current) I found the following
> page to be helpful:
>   http://redvip.homelinux.net/varios/explorer-png-en.html

I believe the reason the alpha channel doesn't work is because IE
'translates' images to BMP format for in-memory use. BMP isn't exactly
known for having an alpha channel, so...

See http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffdav/archive/2003/12/08/53607.aspx

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