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title: Fucken i.e.
date: 2005-04-19T09:41:54Z
modified: 2005-04-19T09:41:54Z
permalink: "https://dogwonder.co.uk/2005/04/fucken-ie/"
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status: publish
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  - General
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No fucken (albeit optional) alpha channel support for PNG in `Internet Explorer` for Windows.

I really am getting quite annoyed at the general contempt Microsoft is showing for web developers. I mean `i.e. 6` is 4 years old…..! The internet as we know it today is only really 8-10 years old. Imagine if the only cars we could drive we all based on 50 year old technology, going to the doctors and receiving only 200 year old medicine practices ~ _this man is an imbecile , the treatment -blood letting / this man has scurvy – the treatment – blood letting!_

Yes [there is a hack](http://koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/) and yes [there is an explanation](http://blogs.msdn.com/dmassy/archive/2004/08/05/209428.aspx). But I am fed up with hacks muddying (even further) my code with yet another workaround to accommodate one browser (yes a \[sub\]90% usage browser).

Its like the annoying kid at a birthday party who won’t join in, generally wines about everything and smells of biscuits. But you can’t do a damn thing coz his brother is a psycho who will shove pencils in your nose, and one little complaint from any of you is met with a wailing ‘i’ll tell my brother about you’!.