[Web4lib] Png files and browsers?

[Carol Bean]

Interesting.  The text renders differently in Windows Firefox and Linux
Firefox, but I guess that's a different can of worms... :-)

You're right about the PNG, though.  But IE isn't the only one that renders
it in a different shade.  Mac's Safari also does it.

Carol Bean

On 9/9/06, Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu> wrote:
>
>
> I've been using PNG images in web pages for years - never any
> complaints.  As Tyson Tate already posted, versions of IE prior to the
> 7.0 betas don't support transparency, but there's seldom any pressing
> need for that--though it's really slick when it works.
>
> Previous versions of IE were criticized for lack of gamma correction in
> PNG images, and it looks like this is still a problem in IE7b2.  So PNG
> is probably not your tool of choice if, say, you need it to exactly
> match a background color set in a stylesheet.  As an example, view this
> page in IE and in either Firefox or Opera:
>
>   http://www.ohiolink.edu/~tdowling/png-test/
>
> The PNG images have colors set in Photoshop to be the same as in the
> stylsheet.  Only IE renders the PNG's shade of green as a different
> color than the CSS background (at least, under Windows...in some
> monitors...sometimes, etc.).
>
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