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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