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Wayne Luke · #8 08-31-2005, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by KW802

Has MS committed to improving PNG support in IE7 yet?

About 4 months ago.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/04/26/412263.aspx

Anyway, it isn't really a hack, to implement PNG transparency. It is a function that was passed off to DirectX in IE 5.5 for better implementation and to show off other filter capability. Internet Explorer for Macintosh and Unix machines supports PNG transparency natively. I use PNG files for all the post icons and smilies on community site and they look just fine in Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0.

All Oblivian Knight's hack does is apply the filter of which instructions have been on the MSDN site for 5 years.

Even with that PNG is a far superior graphic format and yet designer's rely on GIF. Not even matted JPEGs which provide a much better graphic quality. With all the hype on OS X and its PNG driven interface, you would think it would have more acceptability.

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