Among the most important news that has brought us (we will) Internet Explorer 7 is possible, finally, to use transparent png on their sites, probably there ' is needed to explain the significance of this event from a graphical point of view and operational. The infamous
. transparent gif is now heritage of web design medieval late '90s, an era of graphics and layout approximate roughness, Wallpaper-blue and electric palette for color-blind, making the pair with the (tragically) notes animated gifs, parody bitterly even in an episode of the Simpsons where Homer met with Lisa showed her wonderful home page, in a blaze of men leaping and signs flashing.
Oh God, not that. Transparent gif has been or should necessarily be abandoned, but I think all are clear limits scary graphs that pull up their ugly head every time you try to set up a transparent background image even slightly complex. The
. transparent png's instead of real Transparency magnificent and flawless, making it possible to overcome (and sometimes even ask), problems graphics and puzzles that have plagued the poor web designer for years: the first, and do not surprise anyone,. png transparent was only supported by Mozilla, and IE6 there was a nice background of the png Patacconi unwatchable.
Now you can do two things: wait patiently for the advent of definitive IE7 and the demise of IE6, or start to become familiar with this "new" graphics format, using a small trick that allows operate in some way transparency. A trick uncomfortable, I admit, to be used only in extreme cases: for example, if you have a gif of the same background for all pages, but want to change the header graphic, using in fact, transparent png.
The hope is that soon these mezzucci are only bad memories, stuff to tell the grandchildren before the fire, while with a sidelong peek replication Matrix 9 and ordered a beer at the bar with your handheld-chair:)
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