Browser support PNG transparency

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Webnet picture Webnet · Jan 13, 2011 · Viewed 10.9k times · Source

Is IE6 the only browser that doesn't support PNG transparency?

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Rody van Sambeek picture Rody van Sambeek · Jan 13, 2011

From: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pngopacity/

It turns out that most of the latest versions of the major browsers fully support alpha transparency with PNG – namely, Netscape 6, Opera 6, and recently-released Mozilla 1, all on Windows; and, for the Mac, Internet Explorer 5, Netscape 6, Opera 5, Mozilla 1, OmniWeb 3.1, and ICab 1.9. Incredibly, PNG even works on Opera 6 for Linux, on WebTV, and on Sega Dreamcast.

IE5.5+/Win, bless its heart, will, in fact, display a PNG, but it doesn’t natively support alpha transparency. In IE5.5+/Win, the transparent area of your PNG will display at 100% opacity – that is, it won’t be transparent at all.

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