Marcus's Musings

This is by no means an original blog topic (I'm come across many similar ones in the past) but it won't hurt to bring it up again...

It's about time Microsoft provided proper PNG support in Internet Explorer - frankly, as most of us are probably well aware, it's dismal!

Numerous workarounds/fixes have been devised to improve matters (here and here to mention just two) but they don't change the fact that a developer should be able to insert a PNG image into a document with an IMG element just as easily as he can a GIF or a JPG.

Other than lack of financial incentive, I can't think of a good reason why they haven't sorted this out yet (I mean, it's not as if they have their own rival image format that they're plugging instead, do they?!!). This is a good page showing the current status of the PNG format, which includes a review of browser support.

If you agree that Microsoft really should pay some attention to this issue, please add your support to the petition which I just came across:
http://www.petitiononline.com/msiepng/petition.html