PNG is obviously the best choice for images when designing websites. This can be argued of course, but the file size is small, and most importantly, there is true transparency available. If you ever see a cool little badge floating around on a website, chances are that it’s PNG. That said, I don’t use them.

Why? Because IE 6 does not support them. And IE 6 is still on my list of browsers I make a site look good for. I’ll probably have to debug in IE 6 for atleast another year while people migrate over to IE 7, then IE 8. So, I guess I can’t use PNG’s - unless I found a super smart work around - which I did! Check out this guys PNG fix for IE 5.5 (which is dead to me) and IE 6:

IE PNG Fix

I haven’t implemented it yet, but will in the very next site that I build. The solution is clean and non intrusive - please let me know if you have used this and what you think in the comments below.

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