Comments on: Best png fix for ie

By: Weblap.ro

Weblap.ro — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:33:55 +0000

Thanks man’

By: Graphic file formats | Best Web Buzz

Graphic file formats | Best Web Buzz — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:38:37 +0000

[...] Short for Portable Network Graphics, the third graphics standard supported by the Web (though not supported by all browsers). PNG was developed as a patent-free answer to the GIF format but is also an improvement on the GIF [...]

By: Jimmy Rittenborg

Jimmy Rittenborg — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:15:22 +0000

IE 6 i outdated.. people with that browser should seriously upgrade before they get hacked, its full of security holes..

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:47:48 +0000

I think you missed my point, twinhelix offers a version that validates and that doesn’t need the behavior put in the css, it’s commented out in the download by default.

By: firfelin

firfelin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:45:49 +0000

this one is a very nice one working with jquery
http://jquery.andreaseberhard.de/pngFix/

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:09:08 +0000

Admin, Mark has a strong point in regards to the imperfection of the Unit Fix. I have a specific example for you to test out and see why it is not 100%.

For those who use the jQuery effect “Image Cross Fade Transition” posted on http://jqueryfordesigners.com/image-cross-fade-transition/ will find out that even though they’re using Unit Fix as the IE PNG solution, there is still an error with the transparency.

The initial PNG image is clearly fixed. There are no image transparency issues here. However, during the Mouse Over effect, the second PNG image is not fixed and shows the dreaded greyish/white background.

If you figure out a solution to this, I would absolutely love to hear about it because it would solve many of my problems. Thank you.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:24:32 +0000

Mark can you share what what problems you encounter using unitfix? i use .png on designs having opacity to see through bg. tnx for your thought i want to see the limitation of unitfix. tnx! cause i never had problems with unit fix

By: Mark Aplet

Mark Aplet — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:16:24 +0000

I have tried them both too, and though I think the unit png fix is the better of the two, neither one work all that well. Often times your forced into using gif or jpg for for some items that you really want to use PNG’s for, or you have to limit the location to a single effected area.

Though the scripts are better than nothing at times, don’t expect them to be a one size fits all fix.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:36:28 +0000

thanks for the comment, but with unitpngfix you dont have to insert behavior on your css to make a png file support transparency on ie6 and with twinhelix you will have to insert behavior when you need a background support trancparency on ie6, which is a red light on my css validator.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:06:34 +0000

It’s great to see people promoting these fixes. The twinhelix fix does actually include a valid javascript version, both fixes just insert invalid code through javascript anyway.

So with that in mind i would say that the twinhelix option is the better as it seems to be more feature rich.