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> Internet Explorer 6 normally ignores PNG transparency and displays a solid background colour.

> With TinyPNG the background becomes transparent again. No workarounds!

Um, does anyone know how that works? Does IE6 natively support some kind of png transparency?

EDIT: ah, like that: http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2010/png-that-works/#8bit+alp...

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Woah! How is it 2012, and only now I discover that there exist PNG files where transparency works in IE6 ???

What the hell?

I mean, this would have actually been really useful for me... like, five years ago.

PNG8 (which IE6 supports) has had support for alpha transparency for a long time, but only Fireworks was able to create those files. I'm guessing that these guys are making PNG8s? I haven't tested the site myself.

Fireworks is not the only program that can create those files. I've never even heard of fireworks and I create indexed pngs with transparency all the time.

Fireworks is a Macromedia (well, now Adobe) image editor with a focus on graphic creation and the web.

who the heck still cares about what IE6 does?!

Anyone developing for health-care, government, etc.

Heck, I'm sitting here on XP, developing specifically for IE6 and nothing else.

I hope you hate your job a bit :)

And I hope your rate is doubled, at least.

Although IE6 has it's share of problems, it's actually kind of simple developing for one single version of one browser. Once you get used to the quirks, they are constants.

(Note: I'm not saying I like it, just that it's become "normal")

I think he's just curious about how IE6 was tricked into supporting it.

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