Okay, so how many people still use IE6?

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Do you use IE6 or IE7?

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DuckRacer

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I don't want my transparent PNG avatars appearing non-transparent to a good chunk of people. So...

Who still uses IE6? Depending on the results I might have to just go Sage's route and make JPGs with GTP's background color.


Thanks for voting,
Duck

EDIT: If you do not primarily use Internet Explorer, please do not vote.
 
You might want to bear in mind the following things:

IE7 was distributed as a "Critical Update" to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users, so anyone who is accepting Critical Updates on their computer will have IE7. This will cover a significant number of home users, and also Corporates without significant levels of desktop lockdown.

Secondly, IE7 requires Windows XP, so PC users not running XP will be running IE6 or possibly even lower (Windows 2000 Pro shipped with IE5.5).

Thirdly, have you checked Transparent PNG support in other browsers? Netscape appears to be particularly Luddite, and also has a dedicated, if sparse, following.
 
Sadly, I upgraded on my own free accord.

I wish I hadn't.
 
G.T
Sadly, I upgraded on my own free accord.

I wish I hadn't.
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Agreed. Granted, it's not like I use it much anyway - I'm a Firefox man.
 
I haven't upgraded, but then again I only use it for FTP purposes.

Hey look, I escaped.

ie7escapetp9.gif
 
IE7 was junk at first and bogged everything down. After I removed all the yahoo crap it has ran smoothly for me. I actually like the new tab system.
 
IE? What's that? Firefox 2.0 running here :dopey:

edit: Your avatar shows up perfectly in the 'fox.
 
I refuse to update my main computer to XP Service Pack 2, so I'm stuck with IE6. which is alright, I guess, because I only used IE for pages that wouldn't run Firefox or IE tab (quite a few, actually).
 
Not touched IE since moving to FF quite some time ago. Even though I have win xp sp2 I will not entertain IE7.
 
.gif uses only 24 colors from the 24-bit RGB palette while .png uses the full palette with no compression.
 
I thought you could set GIF to use as many colours as you like depending on the quality you wanted?
 
03R1
IE7 was junk at first and bogged everything down. After I removed all the yahoo crap it has ran smoothly for me. I actually like the new tab system.
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Same here. The tabs are a nice touch when editing GTR2 files and among other things.
 
I'm going to have to ask that people who are Firefox/Opera users to not vote so I can actually see who uses IE6 all the time.

Viper Zero
.gif uses only 24 colors from the 24-bit RGB palette while .png uses the full palette with no compression.
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Yep, and because of that, .gifs look like crap.
standard235
Yeah. Save it as a PNG! [WARNING] I have no clue what I'm talking about [/WARNING]
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Then don't post. :rolleyes:
 
ferrari_chris
I thought you could set GIF to use as many colours as you like depending on the quality you wanted?
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You can only use up to 256 different colors in a GIF – in a PNG you can use a bajillion gazillion or something close to that. Also, in a PNG, if you want transparency, it has to be full-on, 100% transparency – with a PNG, you can have variable opacity.

Here I have two images, one saved as a GIF, one saved as a PNG. The most obvious difference is that the GIF has a “staircase” look to it, because the gradient contains too many colors for it to handle – I’ve completely maxed out the capabilities of GIF, even allowing for 256 colors and 100% dithering. The PNG on the other hand is flawless. There’s one more difference though: click on each image, and see how it looks like when it pops up in a new window against a non-beige background – in particular, look at the fringes of the red dot. (This is all assuming you’re not using IE6.)



 
Sage
... stuff saying how much GIFs suck ...
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Ahhh, I see. And it certainly does make a difference with the white background.

Well, if only IE6 could render PNGs with the transparency then, it'd all be much better.

A lot of things would be a lot simpler if there was just one format for stuff - one type of video, sound, image, browser... But that's a topic for another day and another thread.

Thanks for the quick lesson Sage. 👍
 

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