IE 6 Standalone PNG Transparency
Posted by KMFNJ | Filed under Toolbox, Tutorials
As a web designer and developer, I have multiple versions of Internet Explorer (both 6 and 7) installed simultaneously on my computer.Information on the various methods for doing this has been documented in several places, already. But today I came across a problem with the method that involves installing IE 7 over your old IE 6 installation: you lose the filters that allowed PNG transparency functionality in IE 6.
It'll work just dandy in IE 7, of course, but being that there's still over 49% of all users on IE 6 at this particular point in time, you really DO want to be able to test any modifications or hacks in IE 6 and *know* they work, even if you've used it a hundred times before.
So then I came across this post of some like-minded folks who found a way to work around:
The following information was originally found here, in towards the middle under "Additional Considerations":
My website (http://peyser.com) uses the .png transparency hack detailed at WebFX:I wasn't sure where to find the DLL's so I just plugged them into google and found them both on a site called DLLdump.com - I make NO guarantees for anything you might download from any website (including mine :))... but it worked for me!
WebFX PNG Transparency Hack
(Side note: This is an OK script, but I prefer the one by TwinHelix because it supports background transparency in addition to just images)
Unfortunately, once I setup IE5.5 to see my webpage, the transparency effect didn't work. I figured out that the two .dll files needed to enable it to function properly are:
* DXTMSFT.DLL
* DXTRANS.DLL
Once I copied those two files into the proper directory, IE5.5 displayed the website as it should.
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