IE6/png

Are they never going to patch IE6 so you can have transparencies in png files? Or are we stuck using gifs until everyone is using IE7?

There are a few hacks out there to enable transparency when using PNGs in <img /> elements, but not for element backgrounds (i.e. CSS's background-image:; property)

Besides, everyone should be using IE7 Does anyone have the current market % figures?

But it'll be at least another 2 years before we can discount it completely.

Actually, the popular png fixer for ie6 is a script that goes through all the image tags, if it finds a png it draws a span in place of the img, with a microsoft filter style.

I believe you need to look into using:

filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader

http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/

It's the only solution that worked for me.

W3bbo wrote:

Besides, everyone should be using IE7 Does anyone have the current market % figures?

The market figure that most interest me is the % of companies that have migrated to IE7 for their Intranet browser. For me and my business, I can't even consider IE7 for my products because soooo many companies are still on IE6 as their official browser.

What we really need is a light-weight version of IE that is easier to manage through group policy. It's been my experience that corporate IS groups resist upgrades because of the uncertainties surrounding additional features/capabilities (bloat) added with each release.

WiredCoder wrote:


 It's been my experience that corporate IS groups resist upgrades because of the uncertainties surrounding additional features/capabilities (bloat) added with each release.

My experience is that it is less the features/bloat and more the horrendous number of internal apps that break horribly with even the slightest change of rendering engine. Sadly I suspect that's a much harder problem to solve.

On website I manage it is around 35-45% IE7 and the rest IE 6 less than percenter < than IE 6. IE collectively hold 80% of the traffic with Firefox and Mozilla making up 13% and 3%. Safari has slight 2%. Weird off the wall brands like Netscape (grin) fight over a percent.