Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp, transparent PNGs and Internet Explorer

2004-08-05 Thread David Neary
Hi Carol, Carol Spears wrote: > this makes no sense to me. it might be because i do not understand > alpha. the way i understand it is that each pixel is assigned a number > that represents a color That's right. The number is between 0 and 255. And that number gets mapped to the full color

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp, transparent PNGs and Internet Explorer

2004-08-05 Thread Carol Spears
hi dave, On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:01:45AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > Actually, no. That's how indexing works in the GIMP. But it is possible to have > alpha-blended indexed images in PNG. PNG indexes may have an RGBA value, as > opposed to just the RGB value that we limit things to. Here's the

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp, transparent PNGs and Internet Explorer

2004-08-05 Thread Dave Neary
Hi again, Quoting Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > All PNGs produced in the GIMP display correctly in IE. Excuse me, this is just wrong :) > For other programs, here are the tips you asked for: > 1) alpha works fine in 32 bit pngs This is wrong too. Even with 32 bit RGBA PNGs, IE doesn't disp

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp, transparent PNGs and Internet Explorer

2004-08-05 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Carol, Quoting Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:07:41PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > All PNGs produced in the GIMP display correctly in IE. This is because we > > basically have the same design flaw as them - we assumed everything > transparent > > would be a GIF,

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp, transparent PNGs and Internet Explorer

2004-08-04 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 03:57:50PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-04-04 15:02]: > > I agree with you 100%. BUT! If I want to display a page on the net, > for *everyone* to see, I must play to the *whole* crowd. > well, we usually agree. and i am sorry

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp, transparent PNGs and Internet Explorer

2004-08-04 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-04-04 15:02]: > > if you dont want to see crappy looking pngs dont use internet explorer. I agree with you 100%. BUT! If I want to display a page on the net, for *everyone* to see, I must play to the *whole* crowd. My own web site was horrible viewed with

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp, transparent PNGs and Internet Explorer

2004-08-04 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:07:41PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > Quoting Neil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I know that IE has issues with transparent PNG files. I have noticed that it > > is > > somewhat random. Some files display correctly while others don't. Is > > there some

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp, transparent PNGs and Internet Explorer

2004-08-04 Thread Alan Bailward
Do a search for "IE7" on google... it's a CSS file that can be included in a web page which fixes a bunch of stupid rendering bugs in IE, including, as I understand anyway, transparant PNGs. HTH, HAND alan On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:13:04 -0400, Neil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that IE

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp, transparent PNGs and Internet Explorer

2004-08-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Neil, Quoting Neil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I know that IE has issues with transparent PNG files. I have noticed that it > is > somewhat random. Some files display correctly while others don't. Is > there some type of method or work around that will create a transparent > PNG file that

[Gimp-user] Gimp, transparent PNGs and Internet Explorer

2004-08-04 Thread Neil Watson
I know that IE has issues with transparent PNG files. I have noticed that it is somewhat random. Some files display correctly while others don't. Is there some type of method or work around that will create a transparent PNG file that IE will display correctly? -- Neil Watson | Gen