It seems to have come early this year (for me anyway; it’s still 4th April here in England), but the CSS Naked Day is once more upon us. Are you wondering why the site suddenly looks so bare? Well, this is your answer! I think it says a lot about making sure that the site’s underlying code is up-to-date and semantically sound…
I recently signed up to the much-talked-about MySpace to see what all the hype was about. I couldn’t understand why it was so much popular than some of its rivals in the form of Xanga and MSN Spaces, among others. I was expecting a site with plenty of wow-factor, but most of all, flexibility to be able to truly make your profile “your own”. Once I’d signed up, however, I was struck by the complete opposite.
As we all know by now, Internet Explorer has dire support for PNGs, especially for alpha transparency.
While building wackomenace 6, I came across yet another transparency bug in Internet Explorer. 8-bit PNGs using alpha transparency are displayed with jagged edges. I used the Internet Explorer non-standard CSS filter to load the PNG in order to make the transparency work in the first place, but this was the next bug.