RE: OT: General Question...

2007-06-06 Thread Rick Faircloth
nt: Thursday, May 31, 2007 2:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: General Question... Oddly enough I just read a good article about PNG yesterday: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_standards_creativity_png/ Includes <= IE6 workarounds and some ideas for creative use of the transparency.

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2007-05-31 Thread Damien McKenna
> -Original Message- > From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:27 AM > Subject: Re: OT: General Question... > > There is a problem with MSIE 6 which does not support > transparency with PNG. There are several short JS

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2007-05-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for that tip... I'll give it a read... Rick -Original Message- From: Paul Glover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 2:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: General Question... Oddly enough I just read a good article about PNG yesterday: http://www.di

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2007-05-31 Thread Paul Glover
Oddly enough I just read a good article about PNG yesterday: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_standards_creativity_png/ Includes <= IE6 workarounds and some ideas for creative use of the transparency. IE7 does just fine with alpha channel transparency in PNG. IIRC, IE6 handles single colo

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2007-05-31 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
usion MX 7 Developer _ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Rick Faircloth wrote: > Thanks for the advice, Jon! > > Rick > > -Original Message- > From: Jon Clausen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:12 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: OT: Genera

RE: OT: General Question...

2007-05-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the advice, Jon! Rick -Original Message- From: Jon Clausen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:12 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: General Question... On May 31, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote: > The short experiments I tried with gif

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2007-05-31 Thread Jon Clausen
On May 31, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote: > The short experiments I tried with gif's left undesirable > "jagged" rendering. I had to go to .png to get smooth > looking graphics. > > Maybe I'm missing something. I've been utilizing .jpg's for > years and not bothering with transparent .

RE: OT: General Question...

2007-05-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
Ok... thanks for the tip... Rick -Original Message- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: General Question... Make sure to do testing because I've had plenty of lockup issues with javascript fixes for

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2007-05-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
make them render as well as .png's? Rick -Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:34 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT: General Question... If you want transparency, wouldn't it be "back to .gif's"? ~Brad --

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2007-05-31 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
gt; > Thanks, > > Rick > > -Original Message- > From: Joshua Cyr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:32 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: OT: General Question... > > That IE6 issue can apparently be addressed with some JS if needed. > > http

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2007-05-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
Great! I can use that! .png it is! Thanks, Rick -Original Message- From: Joshua Cyr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:32 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: General Question... That IE6 issue can apparently be addressed with some JS if needed. http

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2007-05-31 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>That IE6 issue can apparently be addressed with some JS if needed. Good to know. Thanks for sharing. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) T

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2007-05-31 Thread Christopher Jordan
IE6 doesn't handle transparent .png files well. I'm not sure about IE7. Last I looked (and this was a year or so ago, so it could have changed) there was a website or two out there that demonstrated IE's inability to correctly handle .png files. I also have very recent, first hand experience th

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2007-05-31 Thread Brad Wood
If you want transparency, wouldn't it be "back to .gif's"? ~Brad -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:31 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT: General Question... Bummer! I love the flexibility of the .png fo

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2007-05-31 Thread Joshua Cyr
That IE6 issue can apparently be addressed with some JS if needed. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pnghowto.htm On 5/31/07, Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Any limitations in browsers > > There is a problem with MSIE 6 which does not support transparency with PNG. > I don'

RE: OT: General Question...

2007-05-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
ROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:27 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: General Question... >>Any limitations in browsers There is a problem with MSIE 6 which does not support transparency with PNG. I don't know if the problem was solved withe version 7, but many people are still usi

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2007-05-31 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>Any limitations in browsers There is a problem with MSIE 6 which does not support transparency with PNG. I don't know if the problem was solved withe version 7, but many people are still using version 6. AFAIK, there is no problem if you don't use transparency. -- ___

OT: General Question...

2007-05-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
Are .png images in wide-spread use? Any limitations in browsers or otherwise which would cause me to want to avoid their use? Rick ~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Tri