Is anyone out there really still using Internet Explorer 6 and other ancient browsers that don’t render alpha channel transparencies properly?  I sure hope not because today’s web designers use them readily, and they look far superior in quality to transparent gifs and other images.  In fact, our new site that is about to launch is heavily composed of transparent pngs.  This poses an problem for companies such as ourself, that offer high end web design services and users who are still stuck on antiquated systems running IE6.  Where do you draw the line?  At what point do you ditch the minority of users that can’t properly render your site and move on to the bigger and better technology?  This is also very related to the problem of creating web sites that display properly at certain resolutions.  At what point do you break the line and start integrating newer innovations and features that are supported on higher end systems?

Thankfully Firefox, IE7, Safari and other modern day browsers tackle this transparency issue and display them to perfection allowing web designers to fully utilize them.  The addition of such transparencies really can make your site stand out and give it that extra appeal!

I for one embrace web 2.0 and all that comes with it.  I hope the casual end users will too, and upgrade from their 1024×768 monitor and IE6 and take advantage of the new technology that is out there!

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