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Digital Web’s article Creative Use of PNG Transparency demonstrate the power of PNG in web design. The Transparency property of PNG image is the key that makes it great when designing a web page.
But its not used often due to the lack of support in IE6. Due to this, number of hacks and methods are introduced. Some are PNG Alpha Support of IE, PNG in Windows IE, The easiest way to PNG support in IE6, IE PNG Fix v1.0 RC4 and IE AlphaImageLoader.
But all those solutions uses either Javascript or CSS (behaviour) or .htc file hack emerged but none of them did give the full control.

So, here comes the rescue, IE7.
IE7 is a JavaScript library to make IE behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.
I’ve used these both already in one of my projects.
So, the catch is to use these both to produce a quality design with the ease of PNG’s transparency.

Lastly, IE7 does help much more than PNG support. It supports all the standard pseudo selectors (e.g. li:hover) as well.

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