CDZ Avatars and transparancy

[Irigy]

or: why using IE is bad

<missionary mode>
Below you see a pic on how the avatar is supposed to
look, and how it does look in that certain product
from that certain big company:
http://wc3.ano-toto.de/civ/CDZAvatar.jpg
Sweet and not-so-sweet, hmm?
</missionary mode>

[Shabbaman]

Nice, but what's your point? My avatar has a transparent background, hasn't it? At least, here... and I'm using IE.

[digger760]

And here is the Opera comparison:

Opera:
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/digger760/2004211101018_opera.jpg
2.08KB

MSIE:
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/digger760/2004211101035_msie.jpg
2.27KB

[Irigy]

Ok, i wasn't clear enough in the first post. [blush] Of course IE can display transparancy, but not alpha transparancy (that is: parts of the image are visible for example 50%). With IE it's either 100% or 0%.

[digger760]

And i dont think the pictures i posted showed the proper story so here they are again with a bit more perspective:

Opera:
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/digger760/200421110319_opera.jpg
30.94KB



MSIE:
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/digger760/2004211103140_msie.jpg
27.13KB



So it looks like MSIE is the looser (Opera is much faster to load pages as well :))

[Irigy]

Yes, that was my point. Thanks for the help, Digger! [goodjob]

Every normal browser (except IE) can display alpha transparency.
And to make my point even more clear, i made a little example pic while digger was doing the same. :)

The following pic should always show the background of the page (independent from it's color) on the left - smoothly going over to yellow on the right. You can't do that with the "all-or-nothing" transparancy of gifs.

http://wc3.ano-toto.de/trdemo.png

[Irigy]

Same pic when background is white:

http://wc3.ano-toto.de/trdemo.png


:D