fav-arrow.png disrupts favourites menu background in IE6

[johnhennmacc]

It seems that the CSS transparent background attribute is not being respected in IE6 and fav-arrow.png is introducing a patch of paler grey in the favourite actions menu. A possible solution might be for fav-arrow.png to have its own background that is the same as the intended background image.

I think that's looking like you're describing because you aren't using 32bit colors in Windows.

I know if I boot up Windows in VMWare, it's set at 16bit by default, which causes anything with transparency to render a little bit weird.

Wanna post a screenshot?

For what it's worth, I am running with 32-bit colour. I'll add a screenshot.

Attaching screenshot

This is because of the inability of IE6 to handle PNG images with alpha channel (it's a "last millennium" browser after all). It's a well known defect that can be fixed by patching it.

It's a well known defect that can be fixed by patching it.

You guys could just slap in the ​jQuery pngFix to fix most of the problems. But the sprite sheets will have to be excluded from the fix.

The AlphaImageLoader object cannot handle the background-position attributes. So using a png sprite sheet is impossible to work on IE6.

Been there, done that, got angry about it. :)