[OSM-dev] [Talk-GB] Automating Freemap tile rendering

[James Mastros]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:37:46PM -0000, David Earl wrote:
> > As for browser compatability: are we building for now or for later?
> > PNG transparency works for all the gecko based browsers at least...
> 
> PNG transparency doesn't work in IE6, by far the most common browser on the
> planet

Are the various work-arounds to make IE work with transparent PNGs not
applicable to this case?  For that matter, I'm missing some context.
IIRC, the failure mode of transparent PNGs is that they show whatever
color the RGB bits of the color value are.  Is this likely to be a
problem for regular users?  It means you can't use it as an overlay,
but if we don't render as transparent PNG, that's still the case.

	-=- James Mastros