I am so freaking sick of IE

Can anyone tell me why this page and its images load great in Firefox, but are like one shade off in IE?

http://www.michaelaleo.com/work/markkiddstudios/

Can anyone please convince them to get their &*^#$ straight down there?

On the "view our video" ribbon, the background is taken from the bg.png which is the background for the page. It's directly from the source. How freaking odd.

I got it... Apparantly Microsoft thinks that PNG images should be darker than JPG images, when really they shouldn't. Bah.

Originally Posted by mjaleo I got it... Apparantly Microsoft thinks that PNG images should be darker than JPG images, when really they shouldn't. Bah.

I've had the same problem with Safari ever since it came out, yet it works just fine in Camino (FF-based). IE hasn't been one of the big issue browsers on my end though, which makes me think it may be an issue with how the image was processed on your end. Color profiling or something along those lines...

Btw, have you tried it in IE7? If it works there, it may just be an issue with IE6's somewhat lacking PNG decoder.

Now the images get stopped at the preloader... and it won't rollover anymore. I seriously loathe IE.

Try not using images for absolutely everything, it will make things much easier, not to mention more effecient.

Originally Posted by jono1 Try not using images for absolutely everything, it will make things much easier, not to mention more effecient.

The whole site isn't even 200kb. I'm not worried about it.

Yes, use less images, but use PNG's!

An explaination of why this happens is here. Basically, Photoshop adds some gamma garbage which IE renders.

You can use pngcrush to remove the extra gamma information. (it lowers file size too!) Unfortunatly though pngcrush can only be used by command line, if you can't handle that you can download this nifty program instead which does it for you. Just browse, select, done!

Originally Posted by Jonny Yes, use less images, but use PNG's! An explaination of why this happens is here. Basically, Photoshop adds some gamma garbage which IE renders. You can use pngcrush to remove the extra gamma information. (it lowers file size too!) Unfortunatly though pngcrush can only be used by command line, if you can't handle that you can download this nifty program instead which does it for you. Just browse, select, done!

Interesting program, although, does the crusher reduce the quality of the file?

EDIT: nevermind.