pngbehaviour.htc causes images to go X when printing

[niknah]

To duplicate problem, using IE8 visit...

http://demo.opensourcecms.com/serendipity/

Press print.

A lot of the images on the right side turn "X"

To fix the problem, disable pngbehaviour.htc


I noticed that this file doesn't get used in blog.s9y.org

[onli]

The file is coming from the plugin 'serendipity_event_browsercompatibility' - it probably shouldn't be used anymore. It seems to be only useful for IE6 - maybe we should disable the plugin altogether?

[yellowled]

It seems to be only useful for IE6 - maybe we should disable the plugin altogether?

It is useful in IE6 only since it addresses IE6's issue with alpha transparency in PNG24 images - as far as I can tell, that's the only thing it does.

I'm all for not only disabling it but dropping it from the core altogether, but that's Garvin's call.

YL

[Don Chambers]

Unfortunately, there are still plenty of IE6 users.... probably stuck on educational or institutional computers.

[onli]

Which wouldn't have transparent png's, which is far less evil than not being able to print properly in a sound browser like IE8...
Backwards-compatiblity is nice, but not at the expense of current compatiblity.

[yellowled]

Unfortunately, there are still plenty of IE6 users.... probably stuck on educational or institutional computers.

No, there are not.

(Yes, I know: Your stats keep showing IE6 user. That's because some weird virus scanner or something is detected as IE6 in the referrers. It's also true that a lot of companies still use IE6 because their intranet software requires it because of crappy coding. Well, I guess their employees are not supposed to surf the internet anyway then.)

Edit: See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/26 ... ic_as_ie6/

YL

[yellowled]

Which wouldn't have transparent png's, which is far less evil than not being able to print properly in a sound browser like IE8...

I second that if what you mean is that it's perfectly okay to show people using IE6 ugly PNGs without transparency. It's not that they would not get the images at all, they just won't be transparent. Acceptable.

YL

[onli]

>It's not that they would not get the images at all, they just won't be transparent. Acceptable.
That's what I wanted to say :)