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Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

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

Thanks for the link, interesting reading.

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

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.

... except that the page has to load first until the backgrounds appear correct. While the page loads the backgrounds appear with the wrong color and then after loading they become transparent.

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

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

I'm all too well familiar with the hack. The problem is that I (and most others I know) have absolutely no interest in having to rely upon somebody doing a hack/patch to have their graphics display properly in the most common browser.

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

Even with that PNG is a far superior graphic format and yet designer's rely on GIF.

Because it's still a universal format. Every browser out there can reliably show the same thing with a GIF.

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

... you would think it would have more acceptability.

Like Erwin mentioned, when the UniSys patents about GIF came up I was expecting alternate formats like PNG and Jpeg-2000 to get more exposure.