[OFB Cafe] PNG Transparency and Making It Work with IE7/8

[Timothy Butler]

On Jun 7, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Jens Benecke wrote:

> Am 07.06.2009 um 02:40 schrieb Timothy Butler:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> 	I'm working on a new site for a client and decided to play around  
>> a bit with Scriptaculous to produce animation without Flash. It  
>> works nicely in Firefox and Safari. But, in IE 7/8 (ignoring IE 6,  
>> even) black borders appear around all of the PNGs with alpha- 
>> channel transparency for a brief moment when they appear. It looks  
>> really bad.
>>
>> Supposedly, I thought, IE finally got with the program in IE 8,  
>> but...
>>
>> Anyone know a good fix for this? My script I use to fix IE6 and  
>> alpha channels doesn't seem to help here.
>
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> try "IE7.js" : http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/
>
> "IE7 is a JavaScript library to make MSIE behave like a standards- 
> compliant browser. It fixes many CSS issues and makes transparent  
> PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6."
>
> Perhaps this works also for later versions of IE.


Hi Jens,
	Sorry for the slow reply. Long story...

	In any case, thanks for the heads up. That looks useful.

	Nice to see you back on the list, it has been ages. How are you doing?

	-Tim

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