Actual IE6 Png fix

Question

What png fix method is the most actual today? Lite-weight, with background-repeat and background-position support.

Answer 1

IE7.JS in my view:

IE7.js is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CaSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.

Answer 2

I believe that the DD_BelatedPNG method is superior to the filter method used by ie7.js.

You can use PNGs as the SRC of an element or as a background-image property in CSS.

If you attempt the latter, you will find that, unlike with vanilla usage of AlphaImageLoader, background-position and background-repeat work as intended.

As a bonus, "fixed" elements will respond to a commonly used set of Javascript style assignments, as well as the A:hover pseudo-class.

Answer 3

Create PNG's with Fireworks and encode them as PNG8 instead of PNG32. See: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/09/18/png8-the-clear-winner/

No need for js, no need for css filter. Unless you need more then 256 colours, then you are stuck with filter/js fixes.