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Re: GUI doesn't look right on IE 6

From: Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee <Ratnadeep.Bhattacharjee_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 15:56:00 -0400

Not sure if this applies to your situation but there was some issue
around png images for which we applied a fix for IE5 and IE6. Later it
was found that IE6 SP2 had takes care of the issue. Hence, the fix is
now applied to IE5 only. If someone is using IE6 it is highly
recommended that she switch to SP2.

Check out the following method in renderkit.html.ImageRenderer:
  private boolean isPngAndIE(FacesContext context, String url)

-Deep.

Ken Paulsen wrote:
>
> Hi Anissa,
>
> I think it is b/c of IE 6's inability to dither the alpha channel / deal
> w/ transparency correctly. I'm not sure, though. I'm cc'ing w/
> Woodstock alias for more input. I think the team is moving away from
> special images in favor of using CSS rules (perhaps including using
> transparency in cases like this). This makes rebranding the components
> easier, but perhaps makes IE 6 look bad. Perhaps this will give people
> a little motivation to upgrade to Firefox to get around this. ;)
>
> Ken
>
> Anissa Lam wrote:
>> I just notice that GUI doesn't look right on IE6. Please see the
>> attached image.
>> Will it be because the image on the header is a png file ? I seem to
>> remember that someone mentioned that there is issue with png on IE.
>> The triangle tuner on the tree node looks strange also, but we
>> haven't changed any woodstock jar recently.
>> Any one sees this ? I haven't run IE for sometime, and not sure when
>> this starts.
>>
>> Anissa.
>>
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