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The one thing that prevents me from putting perfect graphics on my websites is Internet Explorer, and yet 90% of the population use it. If it would just support PNG images, everything would be fine. Except for its bad HTML and CSS parsing. And its lack of JPG2000 support. And its slow connection speed. In fact, everything about it is bad. Even Mac IE 5.5 works better than MSIE 6. Microsoft promised to implement native PNG support over four years ago. But what do you expect from an operating system written entirely in C++?

There is a petition going around requesting the MSIE development team to include native PNG support.
If everyone downloaded Firefox or some other decent browser (that DOESN’T include Netscape), there would be no more problems. But no, people just have to use the Windows default browser.

I haven’t been able to add a drop shadow with alpha transparency to the book cover image on Tom Quinn’s site because it would have to be PNG. I found a javascript that detects what browser you’re using, and if it’s MSIE, it deals out the PNGs as divs with a special script that forces IE to display alpha transparency. It worked on some smaller PNGs I tried, but it doesn’t work with the larger book cover image for some reason, and I can’t figure out why. The image just doesn’t show up at all. There’s nothing corrupted about it, and I made sure Photoshop isn’t its default opener (IE doesn’t like images that have Photoshop as the default opener).
If anyone has any suggestions, I’d love to hear them in the comments.

Hopefully, Microsoft will realize that IE doesn’t conform to web standards, and they’ll take the time to fix it (preferably within the next 10 years).

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