Is CE in the "Dark Ages" of the internet?

posted by: pouliot
July 7, 2007
12:57 pm

If you visit the "What is torture?" thread in the "Faith and Life" forum you will see an image of Mr. Shea's photo in the little box to the left of his post.  You may notice that the image appears to have rounded corners. 

Ordinarily, to achieve this on the web, one would make a "transparent" background to the image that included rounding of the corners of the foreground that one wants displayed.  Most browsers will recognize that transparency and display the pixel behind the "transparent" one.  For some reason that doesn't work reliably here on the CE site. 

In the case of Mr. Shea's image, the area that would be "trasnparent" is simply the same light violet color of the box. 

Here are the RGB color settings to match that color: 252-254-255 or fc fe ff but it would be nice if the upload routine would not corrupt the graphic when it is uploaded with a transparency set.  I've confirmed this is what happens by first displaying an image with a small transparent area locally on my browser, then uploading it to the CE site.  Next I accessed the image directly from the site with nothing else on the browser screen,  The transparency is gone, as it is if one accesses the page bearing the image. 

I consider what was done with Mr. Shea's image conclusive evidence that the CE site has messed up the usual support for transparency that modern browsers provide.

I'm not complaining, just advising.  If you want to achieve an effect of transparency with your avatar image, use the light violet color described above.  I've found that 239-235-255 ef eb ff also works.