PNG Support in IE
I’ve been doing some web development for a neighbour and between us we had created quite a nice logo. In order to put the logo onto the site I wanted to make the background transparent so that it doesn’t matter what background colour the site uses the logo will work on it. There are two ways in which to have transparency in images, one is to use the GIF format which allows for an indexed colour to be marked as transparent (that is 0% opacity) or use the PNG format that includes an opacity colour attribute.
Trying to use The Gimp to produce transparent GIFs I struggled and only managed to produce greyscale versions (as seen in the trumpet image at the top of the main page of this blog. Using PNG produces nice colour images that display well in Firefox but do not display well in Internet Explorer.
Where am I going with this discussion? Well here.
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