Just tried the script with IE6 and Warp's example page-->works fine, now
I've got to try getting POV to make a few PNG files with alpha channels and
slap 'em into some web pages...........

Quadhall

"Slime" <noo### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:3bed8e57@news.povray.org...
> No, but if you work with web pages at all, and you're interested in using
> transparent images in IE, there's an Active-X object that loads a PNG file
> and displays it as a transparent image, basically simulating as though the
> PNG were just any other image on the page. There's a script which does the
> conversion from image tags to this Active-Xobject easily at
> http://www.youngpup.net/?request=/snippets/sleight.xml
>
> - Slime
> [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
> [ http://www.slimeland.com/images/ ]
>
> "Mahalis" <don### [at] fakeycom> wrote in message
> news:3bed24dc$1@news.povray.org...
> > Does IE6 show PNG transparency properly?
> >
> > --
> >
> > //Mahalis
> > camera{location<0,0.25,-2> look_at 0.5*y} #declare
> T=texture{pigment{crackle
> > scale 0.5 rotate 90 turbulence 0.75 color_map{[0 rgb 1][0.05 rgb 1][0.1
> > rgb<1,0.25,1>][0.25 rgbf 1][1 rgbf 1]}} finish{ambient 1}} #declare
> > c=difference{torus{0.5,0.1
rotate -90*x}box{<0.7,0,0.2>,<-0.7,-0.7,-0.2>}}
> > merge{object{c translate<0.5,0.5,0>} object{c translate<-0.5,0.5,0>}
> > cylinder{<1,0.5,0>,<1,0,0>,0.1} cylinder{<-1,0.5,0>,<-1,0,0>,0.1}
> > cylinder{0.5*y,0,0.1} texture{T}}
> > --
> >
> >
> > "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
> > news:3bed1c99@news.povray.org...
> > > QuadHall <tre### [at] ww-interlinknet> wrote:
> > > : Recently (I think) there were some postings in one of the povray
> > newsgroups
> > > : involving POV produced PNG files (with an alpha channel) and the
> > internet
> > > : browsers that properly displayed such images.  One of these
postings,
> if
> > my
> > > : questionable memory serves me, had a link to an example web page-->I
> > think
> > > : it had a png image of a lit match against some sort of varied
> background
> > .
> > > : Does anyone remember seeing these posts? (and if so, which
newsgroup,
> > date,
> > > : etc?)  thanks.....
> > >
> > >   I think that post was made by me. I don't remember which thread it
> was,
> > > though.
> > >   The page is this one:
> > >
> > > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~warp/alphatest.html
> > >
> > >   If the browser supports alpha properly, it should look like this:
> > >
> > > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~warp/alphatestsnapshot.jpg
> > >
> > >   The only browsers I know that support the alpha channel properly are
> > > Netscape 6.x, Mozilla 0.9.x (which is practically the same thing) and
> > > Internet Explorer 5.x for MacOS (the Windows version has no proper
> > support).
> > >
> > > --
> > > #macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local
> D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
> > > rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro
> M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
> > > ],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
> > > 7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     -
> Warp -
> >
> >
>
>

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