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IE 5.5 and IE6: AlphaImageLoader Filter

Unless you’ve been residing under a fairly large rock for the past seven years, you should be well-aware that Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 do not provide native support for PNG rendering.  To get IE to play nice, you need to apply Microsoft’s proprietary AlphaImageLoader Filter to the element rendering the PNG while at the same time ensuring IE doesn’t see any “background-image” properties that you’d want other standards-compliant browsers to see.

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Multiple IE installations

…am uploading these two stand-alone versions of IE onto achtungbaby.net since it appears the guy who first made them available publicly has been asked to take them down. I can’t imagine doing client side development without these.

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