David Hucklesby wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:55:38 -0400, brian wrote: > >>I'm working on a site that uses a lot of transparent PNGs for the navigation. >>Obviously, this requires that i use the AlphaImageLoader filter for IE. >>However, i'm >>struggling to come up with a replacement method that will also ensure that >>the links >>are clickable. >> > > > Hi Brian, > Do you have, or can you make something to put on a public server > for us to look at? Just to show us the HTML you use and the effect > you are trying to achieve? >
Right. You can see the design at www.semprinirecords.com The existing site was created by two other people. Neither of them worked out so i was brought in to finish it up (the design is not mine). The only thing i've done with this version was to straighten out a few things, mostly cleaning up the graphics, which were a disaster, and fixing the positioning. The site owners were rushing to go down to South by Southwest in Austin last week, so i had to leave it as a table-based site, as i only had a couple of days. > I have found ways around using transparent PNGs altogether for IE 5/6, > substituting a GIF or JPEG for those browsers, even if the effect is > not exactly the same as for better browsers. > As you can see, that would be pretty much out of the question unless each nav element had a copy for each background. I am *not* going to do that. The new version of the site i'm putting together does away with tables entirely, and maximises caching of elements. I really don't want to have different versions of things for each style. Especially as this *is* the 21st century. > Not sure of your philosophy regarding "graceful degradation," but > I don't like to dumb down a design just because of IE, especially > now that far fewer than 90% of visitors use it. And sometimes getting > it "exactly right" in IE6 can consume your entire budget. > Well, the target audience for this site is pretty net-savvy. I'm not too concerned about things like people browsing with images off and the like. I have to say, also, that it's been refreshing to set the stryles using absolute positioning. I'd forgotten how much simpler it is (my usual fare is text-heavy, easily degradable, fluid designs). brian ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
