Running IE 5.0 - PNG Alpha channel transparency not working. 1

[JNeave]

Is this a bug?

Test image with white background, picture of a plane on top, alpha = 80%

The image just looks gray and washed out, NOT transparent.

ta,

Jim,

 

[starway]

It's not a bug. IE just doesn't support it.
Best browser to support png transparency is Opera, then goes Mozilla.

Here are some tests for you to look at:

http://home.tephras.com/temp/PNG/

http://entropymine.com/jason/testbed/pngtrans/

 

[JNeave]

Just tried my test page on IE6 (whatever revision comes with XP). Appears to work 100%

 

[JNeave]

OK. This is weird. Updated my table with a tiled 1x1 png with 80% alpha and went back to the IE6 machine. It has now stopped working. Don't know why. I hate Microsoft.

But at least PNGs are 1000000000% faster than DHTML alpha and 2x2 GIFs. =)

It looks fine on IE5, just no translucent.

I downloaded Opera too, doesn't work. Complains that the server (MS IIS, or ISS, can't remember) requested and unsuported authentication protocol.

cheers,

Jim.