Variation on the theme of WTF?

[cdybedahl]

So I got bored and made myself a new default icon, on the same theme I always use. This time it's a PNG image, with a proper transparency channel. The kind that MSIE refuses to handle, so you out there who insist on running that won't see it like it should be.

Anyway, it occured to me that I now actually have a machine that can run MSIE: the iBook. So I decided to start it up and have a look to see how much it sucks -- only it turns out that MSIE5 for Mac can handle PNGs with alpha channels. Correctly, as far as I can tell without looking at a torture test page.

So I still don't know what that icon looks like for you MSIE/Windows users.

EDIT: For the IE (and apparently some Opera) users, here's a capture of what it looks like in a browser that gets it right. Note how the shadow works on different background colours.

Comments

[apel.livejournal.com]

I'm using IE6 on XP and it looks fine for me. It's a C with a drop shadow and I can see the background colour I've chosen for you underneath it. Nothing strange.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Is the drop shadow on your background colour or on a white square? Other people running MSIE report the latter, and it is also the failure mode I hoped for. It would be nice if they've chosen to actually implement PNGs in XP, though.

[jennyaxe.livejournal.com]

I tried changing the color setting in MSIE to see whether that'd affect the way the icon looked.

It didn't, but the text in Windows MediaPlayer changed color.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised...

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Looks all right on Mozilla, and it's making me hungry. I hope it was *intended* to look like a pretzel...

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Of course it looks all right in Mozilla, that's a present-day browser.

And the texture is called "Walnut wood", but if you think it looks like a pretzel then I probably got the highlights for the rounded effect right :-)

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Hee, it looks far more like wood now that I look at it, but y'know, when you're hungry, it looks lovely and pretzely and cheesy and salty and yummy... *shuts up and runs to the kitchen:)*

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

What I'm seeing on IE 6.0 is a white background, a greyish shadow, and a letter C that looks vaguelly croissant colour and texture. I tried changing the background colour in Internet Explorer but it still comes out white.

Using Opera, which I think is a bit more modern, it looks identical.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Sorry - this turns out to be wrong, but the network at work is so sluggish I waited to get home before commenting again.

On your page (rather than my friends page) Opera is showing it as having the colour of the background, which is currently pale green, with the drop shadow darker green.

IE 6 is showing it as having a white background.

[(Anonymous)]

(Katlinel at work)

On IE6 on W2k, I see a pale brownish C (that reminds me of either a curled, Worcestershire sauce Twiglet, or pretzel) with a pale grey shadow, on a white background.