Taking on PNG files in IE
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files are great - the lovely little graphic file format that allows for a gradation from full colour to transparency within a graphic. It’s a handy little tool in your kit to help you translate a designer’s vision into a web page.
Well, handy in some browsers. In other browsers it’s more of a “hmmmm, how does this work?” kind of thing. Those “other browsers” being IE6 and IE5.5.
Not being averse to the odd “hmmmm” moment I’ve been trying to use PNGs where relevant, sometimes more successfully than others. But I thought I’d share one of my successes here to hopefully show that it can be done, and relatively painlessly too!
I’ve used PNGs for the main navigation of this site so I’ll use that as an example.
