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.