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For the love of all things holy, help!

Why is it everytime after i finish in "Save For Web" saving a transparent PNG, even if i have the "Transparency" box checked, i still get an image with a colored background?

If someone could please post a tutorial on how they get it to work, or show me where i'm wrong, that would be great... Thanks. :)
 
I don't remember but I think I heard that IE doesn't support PNG transperency or something. I might be wrong, though.
 
I think you're right.

Can anyone see the transparency here? What browser do you have?

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EDIT: Oh i sure messed up, that was actually the GIF. Sorry.

So can anyone see this?

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Looks fine in Mozilla 1.4.1 The background is the same white as the post area.

I will now boot up VMware, and see what it looks like in IE.

*edit* yeah, it has a light blue background in IE, but white in Mozilla. So I guess we can safely say that IE is crap (or at least cant render PNGs worth a ****.)
 
Originally posted by skip0110
Looks fine in Mozilla 1.4.1 The background is the same white as the post area.
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Ok, thanks a lot. Guess there's nothing i can really do.
 
Just for your info., Mozilla is equipped for PNG transparencies, where as Internet Explorer is not. No word as to if Microshaft is planning to fix this. I'd much rather have Firefox anyway. Tabbed browsing is life!
 
It is so dorky to be a browser snob. My god. Get over it. We're all looking at this site and posting... but his browser is better :rolleyes:
 
Well. . . IE *rant and rave about three pages long* There, that is why mine is better :lol:
 
Originally posted by miata13B
Well. . . IE *rant and rave about three pages long* There, that is why mine is better :lol:
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Just curious, and I mean no disrespect, but miata, have you tested Firefox 0.8? I'm having a ball with it. I much prefer it's tabbed browsing. You can center click (The wheel clicky thingy) and it will open up a new tab, so you don't have to minimize your window. I think it's kind of like neat-o. :D
 
Originally posted by toyomatt84
Just curious, and I mean no disrespect, but miata, have you tested Firefox 0.8? I'm having a ball with it. I much prefer it's tabbed browsing. You can center click (The wheel clicky thingy) and it will open up a new tab, so you don't have to minimize your window. I think it's kind of like neat-o. :D
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Does it then let you Ctrl/Tab between tabs (or windows in IE)? That's what I do and I can't see how it could be much more convenient.
 
Originally posted by milefile
It is so dorky to be a browser snob. My god. Get over it. We're all looking at this site and posting... but his browser is better :rolleyes:
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So what if I'm a dork? :p

No, you all are overreacting....IE is fine as a browser in terms of GUI design, ease of browsing, etc, etc, I just dont like it because 99% of all adware/spyware/and the like take advantage of IE security holes. If Mozilla was more popular, I am sure it would have its share of annoying sites that take advantage of it.

My comment was exaggerated. Chill out.
 
It's a problem with IE. Internet Explorer doesn't support alpha transparecy, hence you get a grey background on your PNGs. Why do gifs work then? Because they use binary transparecy. Why doesn't PNG use binary transparecy? The good thing about alpha transparency is that it allows you to save an image at say 80% opacity and it'll still be at 80% on the web. Using that you can get nice smooth anti-aliased edges and such on your images.

Go Microsoft! ...again. :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by milefile
Does it then let you Ctrl/Tab between tabs (or windows in IE)? That's what I do and I can't see how it could be much more convenient.
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Yup, just tried it, it works. Thanks for the hotkey! :D
 
Originally posted by Shannon
It's a problem with IE. Internet Explorer doesn't support alpha transparecy, hence you get a grey background on your PNGs. Why do gifs work then? Because they use binary transparecy. Why doesn't PNG use binary transparecy? The good thing about alpha transparency is that it allows you to save an image at say 80% opacity and it'll still be at 80% on the web. Using that you can get nice smooth anti-aliased edges and such on your images.

Go Microsoft! ...again. :rolleyes:
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^Agreed...
Look up on this, for regular websites.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;294714&Product=ie600:D
 

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