Well, I've arrived at my desitination and I'm browsing the site on the hotel computer and seeing that it appears they don't have an updated version of Windows. Which means the Pings don't display correctly.
So just out of curiosity, how many of you don't see Pings (.png) images the way they should? I had presumed that at this piont, the lion's share of IE had some kind of compensation for the problem.
If your wondering what the problem is, Pings, like GIFs support transparency in an image. Images are all squares and rectangles. Transparency is what gives the illuion that the images has a different kind of shape, while in reality, it's still a four sided object. (You can see this is you've ever tried to select an image and the highlighted area is a block.) The big difference with PINGs is that their more advanced then GIFs. GIFs only support so much resolution, while PNGs can be any resolution. They look better when transparancy is used, which is why I use them for my Smiley sets. Only problem is, older versions of Internet Explorer don't support the method PINGs use to create that transpancy, so, especially when viewed through vBulletin, you'll get this colored block (usually the same color of the edge pixles) around your images. I'm seeing that now on my Smiley set below as I type this and on the rank images.
Anyone else having this problem? I'd like to know if it's a large number, as there is a modification I can install to compensate for it, but my studies of the mod show some hassle with other modifications I have installed and I'l like to avoid messing with it unless absolutly neccessary.
So just out of curiosity, how many of you don't see Pings (.png) images the way they should? I had presumed that at this piont, the lion's share of IE had some kind of compensation for the problem.
If your wondering what the problem is, Pings, like GIFs support transparency in an image. Images are all squares and rectangles. Transparency is what gives the illuion that the images has a different kind of shape, while in reality, it's still a four sided object. (You can see this is you've ever tried to select an image and the highlighted area is a block.) The big difference with PINGs is that their more advanced then GIFs. GIFs only support so much resolution, while PNGs can be any resolution. They look better when transparancy is used, which is why I use them for my Smiley sets. Only problem is, older versions of Internet Explorer don't support the method PINGs use to create that transpancy, so, especially when viewed through vBulletin, you'll get this colored block (usually the same color of the edge pixles) around your images. I'm seeing that now on my Smiley set below as I type this and on the rank images.
Anyone else having this problem? I'd like to know if it's a large number, as there is a modification I can install to compensate for it, but my studies of the mod show some hassle with other modifications I have installed and I'l like to avoid messing with it unless absolutly neccessary.
