Steven P. Administrators Posted December 3, 2002 Administrators Share Posted December 3, 2002 IE users have reported crashes and the only thing we can think of that will do that is the PNG transparancy hack we added to Neowins style sheets. We only removed it from Neowin Blue a week or so ago and now people using grey, silver and Neowin blue small are also experiencing crashes so I have removed the PNG hack altogether. Please comment here if the crashes continue or if this has solved the problem, if you don't experience crashes it looks like we have to look over the PNG code hack again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheekymonkey Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 In the last couple of days I have frequently changed themes to try and suss what was causing IE to hang for me (w2k, IE6sp1) but to no avail. Today has been hang free. :D :D Nice work you l337 admins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kagaku Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 If anyone still wants to use the PNG hack, you can enable it locally on your system, and it'll work with all websites. Take a look at it here, https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...f=46&t=52088&s= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Zollo Posted December 7, 2002 Share Posted December 7, 2002 Never had problems with PNG's loading, I guess I gotta switch back to my old sig and avatar :(. Oh well, no biggie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowstick Posted December 8, 2002 Share Posted December 8, 2002 Blame Quicktime for it. When installing, it hooks in as default PNG handler in IE. So when loading a PNG, it loads Quicktime to show it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeJay Posted December 8, 2002 Share Posted December 8, 2002 Blame Quicktime for it. When installing, it hooks in as default PNG handler in IE. So when loading a PNG, it loads Quicktime to show it. TomServo, Do you know if there is a way to disable the Quicktime PNG support? I was wondering why the Quicktime Task app keeps trying to register itself to run at startup every time I have visited a certain web page recently. (note: I have Startup Monitor runnning so I am prompted whenever an app tries to do this.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humcheepeng Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 I was wondering why the Quicktime Task app keeps trying to register itself to run at startup every time I have visited a certain web page recently. (note: I have Startup Monitor runnning so I am prompted whenever an app tries to do this.) Just delete/rename/move qttask.exe in the Quicktime folder. No problems will be encountered! And I really am not joking here. You can ask the admins to ban me if my solution screws up your system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shafi Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 I'm no problems. I'm using xp pro ie6 , no sp1( is buggy). Quicktime 6 is installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainashi Posted December 15, 2002 Share Posted December 15, 2002 i haven't crashed because of it. ie6 hasn't crashed on me for months and months and months. :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathamon Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 ack , :( looks like we'll have to stick with the nazi gif format Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kagaku Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 Only you poor soles on IE are stuck with gif format. I'm seein' every PNG in it's full 32bit alpha blended greatness. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMetallica Posted January 24, 2003 Share Posted January 24, 2003 In Soviet Russia... PNG disables YOU. And 32bit is useless! YES, there is a McDonalds in Hanoi Square. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowstick Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 Only you poor soles on IE are stuck with gif format.I'm seein' every PNG in it's full 32bit alpha blended greatness. :D PNGs work fine on IE here, incl. alpha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxBoy Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 I had no problem prior to the hack removed.. I guess I was the lucky one.. ahh well.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altezza Veteran Posted February 4, 2003 Veteran Share Posted February 4, 2003 I've never had any crashes when PNGs are present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudEngineer Posted February 8, 2003 Share Posted February 8, 2003 is PNG support going to be enabled again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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