Fix issues with PNG images in IE
Many of the might see the PNG images displayed differently in IE browser, when compared to the other browsers. The image might not coexist with the background or some of the transparent images might not displayed corrrectly when viewed in Internet Explorer.
MS didn’t release any fix for this issue and hopefully this may get better in the IE 9 release. I’ve got an email this morning from one of the IETips reader who is building a website. He had a tough time matching the background with the image colors and also with the transparent images. The website background/image colors sync perfectly on the other browsers, but not IE.
The solution that I’ve found in one of forums helped him. Here is a what it recommends:
Try using a simple tool called TweakPNG.
When you are creating your sliced images within Photoshop (or any other graphics software of your choice) and saving them as png’s, you open the Tweakpng program up and simply drag your png saved images (one at a time though) and delete the “gamma” line of code. Don’t start exploring the other elements you may find in the window but the one you want to focus on at this time is Gamma - the culprit of not matching up with solid background colours of the same colour of your graphic is related to this when viewing in IE.
This will help you to resolve the issue with using PNG images in websites. Please note, IETips didn’t test this tool and the information provided is an extract from another blog to help the readers of IETips to quickly solve similar issues.
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