Email conversation
| From | Bret Douglass |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Addendum to the MSIE png-24 saga |
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| Date | 26 March 2008 04:25 |
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MSIE for the Macintosh actually did properly support 8-bit alpha for the
png-24 file format around the era of version 5.1a (when I first remember
testing it), which was roughly ten years and 2 major releases before it was
supported in the Windows platform.
Bret Douglass
| From | Me |
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| To | Bret Douglass |
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| Subject | Re: Addendum to the MSIE png-24 saga |
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| Date | 29 March 2008 08:43 |
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Bret,
> MSIE for the Macintosh actually did properly support 8-bit alpha for the
> png-24 file format around the era of version 5.1a
I assume you are referring to this page:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/?chapter=PNG+Transparency
The introduction to the article says that it relates only to IE on
Windows (that is not spelled out on each page basically because IE on
Mac is dead).
But yes, there were several things that IE on Mac did first, many years
before the Windows version. Fixed positioning and backgrounds were also
supported, I think. The Windows version basically caught up with the Mac
version (with far fewer major bugs) when IE 7 was released.
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/