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Remember when IE didn't support it? And the goofy hacks Microsoft made people do to support transparency on websites?
by chamwislothe2nd 4y ago
Remember when IE didn't support it? And the goofy hacks Microsoft made people do to support transparency on websites?
- giantrobot 4y agoOh, IE "supported" PNGs almost maliciously. If you had a True Color PNG? No problem. Paletted 8-bit? No problem. 8-but with alpha? Fine. True Color with alpha? I hope you like seeing your background color you meant to alpha out. You had to use Microsoft's DirectX filtering CSS extensions to properly handle the alpha channel of True Color PNGs.
- masklinn 4y ago> 8-but with alpha? Fine. Not exactly, palletised png supports a full alpha channel which did not work with IE. Though you had to work to get that as usually software would limit palletised output to GIF (if you didn’t outright have to create your pngs from gifs).
- ksherlock 4y agoOh god. filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(...)