Technology: IE and standards with CSS and PNG
How many of you use Internet Explorer? Raise your hands. Ok, now poke yourself in the eye. That's what you get! After some light reading, it turns out that Internet Explorer can not display transparent PNG (portable network graphics) images yet. If you are using IE, note the really lame gray background of my bee logo. View it in any other browser: Netscape, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konquerer, uh Lynx with a framebuffer, Mosiac (j/k) and it will be transparent. Here's a list of browsers and the support they offer. Bascially, IE rejocied seven years ago when they put support for PNG's into IE 4.0. Well, ok that was like 1997, have they updated it to support transparency? Oh, no? They haven't? That's odd. Everyone else has. I would have.
Second on my chopping block is IE's lack of CSS support. I noticed my blog looks fantastic in Firefox, but someone told me it's jacked up in IE. I investigated and to my suprise, it was hosed. Basically it comes down to this. Follow the Standards and you get burned in IE. IE makes mistakes look correct and proper code look messed up.
Second on my chopping block is IE's lack of CSS support. I noticed my blog looks fantastic in Firefox, but someone told me it's jacked up in IE. I investigated and to my suprise, it was hosed. Basically it comes down to this. Follow the Standards and you get burned in IE. IE makes mistakes look correct and proper code look messed up.