Apology to IE6 users

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Apology to IE6 users

Post #1by Chuft-Captain » 08.02.2007, 10:20

I just realized that I have not tested my Colony and Rungworld webpages properly in IE6 (I normally use Firefox), and it turns out that because I used a couple of PNG's with transparency, well they don't display correctly in IE6.

Prior to v7, IE has problems with displaying transparent images... there are ways to fool it into displaying them, but they're not straight-forward, so for now, I've just incorporated the transparent images into the background, and as that's a jpg, IE6 users shouldn't have any further problems (although they may be slow to load for dialup users)

I apologise to all IE6 users who probably have not been able to view the pages correctly in the past. (I'm surprised no-one actually complained).

Please do let me know if you still can't see the large images on the RHS of the pages at the links in my SIG.

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CC.
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Re: Apology to IE users

Post #2by tech2000 » 08.02.2007, 12:49

Chuft-Captain wrote:I just realized that I have not tested my Colony and Rungworld webpages properly in IE (I normally use Firefox), and it turns out that because I used a couple of PNG's with transparency, well they don't display correctly in IE.

IE has problems with displaying transparent images... there are ways to fool IE into displaying them, but they're not straight-forward, so for now, I've just incorporated the transparent images into the background, and as that's a jpg, IE users shouldn't have any further problems (although they may be slow to load for dialup users)

I apologise to all IE users who probably have not been able to view the pages correctly in the past. (I'm surprised no-one actually complained).

Please do let me know if you still can't see the large images on the RHS of the pages at the links in my SIG.

Regards
CC.


Transparent PNG's are shown correctly with IE v7.0...

//Anders

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Re: Apology to IE users

Post #3by Chuft-Captain » 08.02.2007, 14:03

tech2000 wrote:Transparent PNG's are shown correctly with IE v7.0...
//Anders

Thanks Anders,

I did know that, however the stats on visitors to my pages:

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Firefox   40%   
MS Internet Explorer 6   36%
MS Internet Explorer 7   19%
Netscape Navigator 7.x   7%
Firefox 1.0   7%
Opera 9.x   6%
Opera 7.x   1%

suggests I need to cater for IE6. :roll:

Here's an interesting link on the issue...
http://wiki.jalakai.co.uk/dokuwiki/doku ... als/png_ie
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Post #4by John Van Vliet » 10.02.2007, 07:01

when my site was up i gave up tring to get it to display correctly in IE ( i would have neaded to do 2 sites) and went for mozilla , konqueror , opra


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