Hi,

The other day I took up the challenge of getting transparent PNGs for my shadow effect usage. I seriously required them, and as usual, IE was there to corrupt my plans. IE6 was having issues showing the PNG. Somehow the background wasnt transparent at all. So then came the issue of getting a transparent background. I had to do a bit of research on the same topic. I found a few good articles on alistapart.com. But then nothing was actually able to get my doubts cleared. I was again stuck up with the same problem. Atleast for that site, I had to use perfectly cut images to get the shadow effect without the transparent PNGs but now I am obsessed with getting this thing done. There are Javascript fixes for the same i.e using the Microsoft’s AlphaImageLoader filter, which obviously works with only the MS browsers. But sadly this works only for acutal images, not background images. So this is ruled out. There are others too such as http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/pngbehavior/pngbehavior.html but yet this remains one unsolved question. I will be on it for a while…