Do you guys use PNG pics?

[effisk]

I'm using .png pics on several of my websites, and it appears that my browser quite often don't display them (it displays some of them at random when I hit refresh. I'm using IE6). It may be due to the server, I'm not sure, but it's pretty annoying.

Example: http://www.french.tk

The top banner (same color as the background) usually shows up when you hit refresh if it isn't displayed at first. Same for the shadowed frame (8 small files) around the flash animation.

[blastradius]

All the pictures show up for me. I too am using IE6. I scanned through severial of the photo pages and everything works. It maybe the MS has an update to IE6 you don't have installed and that is why you are getting the problems. (and maybe it's just because it is MS I have problems with some of the images on this forum {ie. new post pic) not showing up and have to right click and go show pic.)

But to the question of using PNG pics. Honestly I never use them for the web at all. I always use jpegs and gifs.

If you are experiencing problems viewing the pic chances are some of your vistitors will experience the problem. I know this is probably not what you want to hear but if I were you I would go and convert all the png files to jpegs.

[effisk]

Originally Posted by blastradius

I know this is probably not what you want to hear but if I were you I would go and convert all the png files to jpegs.

Definitely not what I want to hear :(

I tested with Opera and Mozilla, same thing. But I also realized that it is working great some days and it's almost down some other, as if the server was too busy or something. I'll wait and see if this is linked before making any changes.
Thanks for your input.

And I can't wait for the day when IE supports alpha channels!

[timore]

I used .png files for some time in my pages.
But the colors are for some reason different than the colors of .gif or .jpeg.

Like if I have some sort of blue background in my page, and I set the same color into a .png file in Photoshop, it still displays it as a lighter color...

[effisk]

Originally Posted by timore

I used .png files for some time in my pages.
But the colors are for some reason different than the colors of .gif or .jpeg.

Like if I have some sort of blue background in my page, and I set the same color into a .png file in Photoshop, it still displays it as a lighter color...

I've had the same problem. Seems to be a software related problem. I eventually managed to fix it for some of my pics, I can't remember how.

[mushroom]

I had heard that png's are not properly supported in some browers, so gone with the flow and use jpg's for all static images and gif's for animation.

[effisk]

Originally Posted by mushroom

I had heard that png's are not properly supported in some browers

I know IE6 and most of the browsers don't support alpha channels so PNGs are just displayed as GIFs.
There won't be a IE7 version before a while (2006, maybe 2007) I hope the'll take the alpha channels into account for that next version...

[Conficio]

Hi everybody,
how about looking at the source of PNG?

Good luck

K<o>