599172 - [IE 6] Images aren't transparent and look bad in Internet Explorer 6

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Attachment: Screenshot of IE 6

See screenshot of IE 6 on http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/beta/

Comment 1

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

I am not sure being IE6 compatible is necessary for a beta section that is targetting early adopters, maybe we can check what the % of IE6 users we get to this beta page to see if it is worth dedicating time on that?

Comment 2

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Weird - r74850 should have fixed this, and it does look fixed on my dev server in an IE6 VM. Can't figure out why the PNG fix isn't working on stage

Comment 3

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

FWIW, the Firefox beta page has this same issue:

http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/beta/

It's not as noticeable because the images have a background color close to the page gradient bg, but the "Give Feedback" image has a white background. Not sure where that feedback thing came from though.

I'll try to figure out why my dev box shows the issue fixed when stage doesn't, but in the meantime I think I'll try changing the image BG colors as a bandaid fix

Comment 4

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

er make that http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/

Comment 5

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Okay, I think r74890 fixes this on stage. Got rid of the iepngfix workaround and just reexported the images as 8-bit indexed PNGs, which are slightly lower quality but seem to make IE6 happier

Comment 6

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED; tested in IE 6, 7, 8; thanks!