22 May 2007

IE's PNG Format Support

The poor PNG support by IE has been bothering me so badly that I have to write something about it.

From the infamous IE has
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Png#Web_browser_support_for_PNG
Internet Explorer supports PNG images but is unable to correctly display images with gamma correction or color correction. Versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 7 are unable to correctly display images with alpha channel (for transparency) without additional coding [22].

Sometimes I just feel very upset by the fact that domination of IE have really made our world wide web uglier. Ugly, not just in the sense of look and feel, but also the tendency of not following standards and making web pages look ugly or even fail on browsers other than IE.

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