[tei-council] TEI badges in PNG/GIF formats; please review

[James Cummings]

Ah I see. I mistakenly assumed it was just using the original background 
colour that underlaid the transparency. Mea culpa.  I use a sensible 
browser so don't have this problem. ;-)

I'd say yes, just don't worry about the pre-MSIE7 crowd. While it won't 
look as nice it is hardly disastrous.

-James

David Sewell wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, James Cummings wrote:
> 
>> Wouldn't it be better to have the transparent sections appear white in those
>> browsers that don't do transparency?  just because that is a more common
>> background colour than light blue?
> 
> For the broken browsers, there is no control over the "transparency"
> color of the PNG--it just shows up as a ghostly blue color. If I were at
> a Windows machine I could create a screen grab to show the problem, but
> this page gives some more info:
> 
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pngtest.htm
> 
> There are workarounds for the problem, but they are up to the webpage
> author to implement.
> 
> My informal sense is that more and more Web authors are using
> transparent PNGs and not worrying any more about the pre-MSIE 7 crowd.
> 
> David
> 


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Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk