Forum OpenACS Q&A: PNG transparency problems in IE

Hi,

I'm working with a web designer and they've made me aware of some PNG transparency problems in IE (see this link for details http://koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/). There's a solution available in PHP which he wants to use. The solution works as follows "the PHP script searches for IMG tags in the HTML that have ".png" (case-insensitive) in the SRC attribute, replaces it with a 1px x 1px PNG-8 image containing binary transparency (which MSIE does support) and adds the necessary CSS style statements for MSIE 5.5+ to render the transparency as desired."

Is anyone aware of a similar solution for AOLserver? I could rewrite the PHP function in TCL but I'd rather not have to.

thanks
Brian

Well, loading PHP into AOLserver just to do that would be absurd, so if you want to handle it server-side, implementing your algorithm in Tcl would be the way to go. It doesn't sound that hard.

Or if you want to do it client-side for IE only, Joe C. seems to have a lot of good info on that.