Comments on: PNG8 - The Clear Winner

By: AlexW

AlexW — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:50:47 +0000

Not at all, Stoyan. Appreciate the hat tip :)

By: ssttoo

ssttoo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:23:06 +0000

Hey Alex, I quoted this article (and used an image from it) during my talk about “7 mistakes in image optimization”. I thought I should let you know and hope you don’t mind:
http://www.slideshare.net/stoyan/image-optimization-7-mistakes/

Thanks again for the great writeup!

By: nicedeals

nicedeals — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:18:29 +0000

Excellent write up here. Thanks!

By: Cooly

Cooly — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:57:57 +0000

support gif renamed by file surname PNG :D

By: Wynnefield

Wynnefield — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:31:10 +0000

i use png-24 with the alpha transparency option and don’t seem to have any problems, expcept of course with IE6. then again i have a deferred javascript referenced in the head section of any pages with png files and the alpha transparency is clear as a bell, drop shadows, gradients, everything is nice and smooth.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:36:33 +0000

If you want png 32s to be transparent in IE6, you just have to use this in your style sheet. It has to be at the very top of your style sheet, and you have to import your style sheet from within another style sheet for it to render correctly.


img {
*ie6_-: [png]transparent;
}

By: Cassie

Cassie — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:49:32 +0000

@CaryD: Thanks so much! I realized that this method produces the same result as if one were to insert an image in DreamWeaver CS3 and select a .psd file, and select png8 as the file type.

By: CaryD

CaryD — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:24:32 +0000

@ Cassie:

You need to cover the image with a rectangular slice and select the slice. Click on the Preview button on the top bar to see the colors correctly. Make your settings in the Optimize panel with the slice still selected. Then right click the slice (or Ctrl+click on a Mac, I think) and choose Export Selected Slice from the popup menu.

By: Cassie

Cassie — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:20:28 +0000

Hi, I’ve tried adjusting my png8 with your info here but I am still getting the background in ie? I have it set to png 8, alpha transparency and so forth, have tried it with various color counts but I still have the same issue. Help?! I believe I am missing the most basic of things here but for the life of me can not ascertain what that thing is!
Thanks so much.
C

By: georgevreilly

georgevreilly — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:43:00 +0000

Your article saved my sanity. We were having a really nasty problem with IE6 deadlocking when we used the AlphaImageLoader CSS filter, and PNG8s gave us a good way out.

Details at http://blogs.cozi.com/tech/2008/03/transparent-png.html