[Note: I no longer work for Sun. I am slowly migrating the more worthwhile blog entries I made for Sun to my own blog. I need the Google love.]
Originally posted on Oct 2, 2007:
MSIE 6 handles PNG Alpha Channels really badly. For years now I've not used them because of MSIE 6's poor implementation, and this means modern browsers that can handle them have not been working at their best while I designed with badness in mind.
"Stupid MSIE 6," I'd grumble as I made yet another low bit-depth image, edges aliased to an "average" background color, a single background color. "I was making GIF images like this in 1996. When does The Future start?"