echohelloworld

I personally don’t believe that technology and techniques that benefit both the user and the developer should be shunned just because the lion-share of users are still relying on older technology. PNG gives far better quality images, usually at a greatly reduced file size. It seems like a no-brainer. Except for the fact that IE6 doesn’t support transparency in PNGs.

There is an IE6 PNG fix on TwinHelix that I can only get to do half the job, which is really irritating. The technique makes the image render with transparency, but makes it expand to a somtimes arbitrary size with the dreaded red cross in the corner. Another problem with this is that it doesn’t allow you do position the image. I’m currently using a relatively verbose alternative, which essentially involves you emulating an img tag, but allows you to position your element. Hopefully some will find this helpful as I was racking my brains for something like this on my last project.

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