Comments on: IE6, CSS Sprites and Alpha Transparency

By: Frank Jania

Frank Jania — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:02:07 +0000

Thanks for this. It was very helpful. I've blogged a bit more about wrapping the block element and some of the problems I encountered along the way.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:24:51 +0000

Great stuff, will use in the future.

For now I think I’ll simply let IE6 have multiple http requests on the current site I was attempting to optimise.

By: Oliver Nassar

Oliver Nassar — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:48:36 +0000

Clever, good post. Kinda sucks as it requires me to change my markup which is valid and works perfectly on ie7/ff/O, but will try to use a ie6 only style sheet without changing the markup.

Either way, real clever. Great blog.

By: Julien Lecomte

Julien Lecomte — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:53:49 +0000

@puneet

Yes, but the whole point of this article was to show how sprites can be emulated using the AplhaImageLoader.

By: puneet

puneet — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:20:20 +0000

Is there a way to apply AlphaImageLoader on an image tag instead of div ? All examples of web are on div.

By: Stubbornella

Stubbornella — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:16:52 +0000

Keep in mind that the alpha image loader doesn’t work when images / js / html reside on different servers. Often the case for large commercial sites.

I’ve been bitten once because the testing environment was all on the same server and the prod was dispersed. The bug only appeared when published.

By: Adam Platti

Adam Platti — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:51:46 +0000

It’s important to note that clip can only be used with absolute positioned elements.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:27:19 +0000

Great, I was searching for something like this few days ago.