https://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3954&p=26859#p26859
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Lopalong
Fri 28 Mar, 2008 21:25

Re: [Release] Black Opal AKA Opal Black!
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[quote user="DWho" post="26849"] 
The transparent images for your theme are working fine in my IE7 the site is exactly the same for FF...[/quote]

Thanks for the feedback.  :wink: 

But in IE7, the scrolling is jerky, rather than smooth as with FF. There is a fix for it, but a lot of other .js scripts in IP don't particularly like it. :(

[quote user="DWho" post="26849"] 
The problem is as far as I can tell as I have used those images myself for a theme is they have not been correctly made.... and in both IE7 and FF they sometimes darken unless you refresh the page...[/quote]

I made some of those graphics using PaintNet, and because of the "double" level of transparency it's difficult to know how it's going to react with all browsers because of caching.

[quote user="DWho" post="26849"] 
I sadly scrapped the theme I did for this... as I couldn't be bothered to redo the images... [/quote]

Yep! they do take a long time to make, especially the transparencies; but if I change them to .gif the whole effect is lost and so is the ability to just add a new background for a whole new look?

Dunno! Still musing over it.  Maybe bite-the-bullet and try it with gifs, and if anyone wants to expand on it; then they'll have to create new coloured gifs for it. :)


