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MS Internet Explorer 5.5 displaying PNG icons without transparency just because Microsoft
can't be bothered supporting an open standard - thereby acting as a perennial pain in
the collective ass of the web design world.
Mozilla 1.4 displaying PNG icons (with transparency) properly
allowing them to blend in with the white background as the web developer intended, in
accordance with freely available open web
standards...
Note: the icons are mostly from the gorgeous Crystal Icon collection made available by Everaldo Coelho and the design team at www.yellowicon.com.
This site is designed to comply with published open standards for web content presentation. If these pages don't look very good in your browser, it's not because it's been set up incorrectly, it's just because your browser doesn't implement the open formatting standards for web content called "Cascading Style Sheets" - notable examples of this are Netscape 3-4.x and MS Internet Explorer 3-5.
Your web surfing experience will be vastly improved if you install an open standards compliant browser - nearly all of them are free to use, and some of the best are even open source, which leaves no bitter aftertaste. Examples of the freebies are Internet Explorer 5.5+, Netscape 6+, and Opera (with ads). Open source options include Konqueror (for Linux), Galeon (for Linux) and, my personal favourite, Mozilla (which is available for all widely used platforms, and is, as a result, vastly superior).
If you've noticed that the icon menu in the top right-hand corner of the screen has borders around each icon (with my browser, Mozilla, they look like the graphic on the right) it's probably because you're using Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which stands alone among web browsers in not providing support for the very good open image standard PNG (Portable Network Graphics). This problem, well known to web designers, has been around for a long time. If Microsoft surprised all computing professionals by making their software play nicely with other software in compliance with open standards, it would make life much nicer for us web developers who constantly struggle to deal with the idiocyncrasies (and idioticies and incompetencies) of various browser developers. I guess I should savour the irony that most of that time is spent struggling with the browser developed by the world's richest company, and the least is spent on the browser developed for next to nothing by volunteers (Mozilla). It's a funny old world...
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