American Butifarra » Image Optimization http://claude.betancourt.us Claude Betancourt's Personal Blog Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:43:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Image Optimization, AlphaImageLoaderhttp://claude.betancourt.us/image-optimization-alphaimageloader/ http://claude.betancourt.us/image-optimization-alphaimageloader/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:47:37 +0000 Claude http://claude.betancourt.us/?p=281 Continue reading →]]> This article, part 5 of a series on image optimization, talks about the use of transparent PNGs with IE6 and why the AlphaImageLoader hack is bad and a very interesting solution

This installment of the image optimization series is about the IE-proprietary AlphaImageLoader CSS filter, which developers often use as a workaround to solve transparency issues with truecolor PNGs in IE. The problem with AlphaImageLoader is that it hurts page performance and, therefore, hurts user experience. I argue that AlphaImageLoader should be avoided when at all possible.

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