#8542 closed defect (bug) (wontfix)
Transparency of navigation menu images in IE6
Reported by: | johnhennmacc | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | UI | Keywords: | has-patch |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
I see that the favourites menu has had a GIF's replacing PNG's for greater browser support. What about doing the same for the images gracing the navigation menus? It would add extra polish for IE6 and follow on from the the favourites menu changes.
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Unfortunately GIFs support only 256 colors which is not enough for the nice menu icons. As far as I remember there's a patch for IE6 to make it handle transparent PNGs so if somebody is stuck with it (IE6 has been "dead" for some years now), at least they can patch that.
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15 years ago
Replying to azaozz:
Unfortunately GIFs support only 256 colors which is not enough for the nice menu icons. As far as I remember there's a patch for IE6 to make it handle transparent PNGs so if somebody is stuck with it (IE6 has been "dead" for some years now), at least they can patch that.
PNG images for menus are 8-bit; 28=256 => PNG to GIF conversion should be lossless.
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15 years ago
Replying to vladimir_kolesnikov:
Replying to azaozz:
Unfortunately GIFs support only 256 colors which is not enough for the nice menu icons. As far as I remember there's a patch for IE6 to make it handle transparent PNGs so if somebody is stuck with it (IE6 has been "dead" for some years now), at least they can patch that.
PNG images for menus are 8-bit; 28=256 => PNG to GIF conversion should be lossless.
Transparent PNGs are 24-bit. :)
And the IE6 PNG fix will not work for this situation. The AlphaImageLoader object does not work with a background-position other than top left. It just fails miserably.
Folded navigation menu as seen in IE6