Image transparency...

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks - I'm making a nice web interface up that's modelled on MCE.

I'm making up 3Dish buttons with nice drop shadows, and have saved them as
PNG to maintain that transparency info..


And they look really really nice :D

*but* pop over to IE6 (I use firefox by default) and they look *hideous* no
transparency, a strange banding effect - almost as if it were only an 8 bit
image.

I thought about saving as gif, but the lower colour depth impacts the
shadow
effects quite badly.

The big question - is there a way around this?

The obvious one is to switch all of my PCs across to firefox (something I
am
going to do anyways) but it would be nice to be able to distribute this
skin
(it's for Tony T's Medianet project) and saying "only works in
firefox"
seems just as, well, closed as websites saying "Best with IE".

It would be nice if there was a more open solution.

I.