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Internet Explorer 6 is still there….

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Tonight I was looking at my blogs awstats and realized that IE6 is still the most used browser (at least in Windows).
Given the fact that my blog is quite technical and my readers have a tendency to use open source software as Firefox, this is pretty scary!!!
Internet Explorer 6 is bad and full of [...]

IE6 does not cache my filtered pngs

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

When using png images as background, you need to apply a trick to make Internet Explorer 6 to display the background as transparent:

filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src=’http://robcos.com/img.png’, sizingMethod=’crop’);

I realized though that if Internet Explorer caching setting is set to Every visit to the page, the png file is dowloaded multiple times if you have the same picture more than [...]