[Mediawiki-l] Transparent PNG's in IE?

Mon Feb 19 22:10:04 UTC 2007

For some reason with I put the following three lines in
skins/MonoBook.php in the <head> section...

        <!--[if lt IE 7.]>
        <script defer type="text/javascript" src="pngfix.js"></script>
        <![endif]-->

... And have pngfix.js in the main wiki directory I get an "Error on
page." message in the bottom of IE and no transparent images, yet if I
view the source, save it as a .html and put it in the root of the wiki
directory and browse to that as a html page it works fine without error?

Any ideas here?

Thanks,
~Eric 

-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Frederich,
Eric P21322
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 4:23 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Transparent PNG's in IE?

I was wondering if there was some one-time process that merged the
background with the PNG to give it the appearance of being transparent
or if it was being done on the fly.

Normally I would be able to right click on the image in firefox and view
the image or copy the source and be able to tell but for some reason I
can't or Firefox can't figure it out and doesn't even treat it like an
image.

Anyway, I searched around a bit and found this....

http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/wwwlab/pngtest/test2/

This seems nice because it works globally.

If I wanted to include the following snippet on EVERY wiki page, where
is the place to do it?  I'm sure there is a place.

  <!--[if gte IE 5.5000]><![if lt IE 7.0000]>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="pngfix.js"></script>
  <![endif]><![endif]-->

Thanks,
~Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 4:16 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Transparent PNG's in IE?

On 19/02/07, Frederich, Eric P21322 <eric.frederich at siemens.com> wrote:
> How is this happening?

A JavaScript hack, I believe.

> Can the same method work with other PNGs placed inside pages?

Tried to see?

Rob Church

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