So, I was looking at the rather nice LaTeX that I’d generated last night, and figured that I’d check how it looked in IE. The answer? Not good. You see, I’d forgotten that I’d set up the LaTeX script to generate PNGs instead of GIFs, which is bad for IE because it’s a big retarded pile of poo and doesn’t handle alpha blending at all.

But there is a fix, thank goodness. So, for any of you web developers out there that haven’t already found this, take a look at the IE PNG fix. It’s basically a neat and easy way of fixing PNGs so that you get proper alpha blending. So now I’m able to properly put a nice little alpha layer on the PNGs in the LaTeX code, and people are still quite able to see them. How nice. It uses the DirectX filtering control which means you won’t mess up your CSS and by using conditional commenting, only IE users will have to go the extra yard to download the JavaScript. Hurrah!
Meanwhile, I’m in a Vector Analysis kind of mood; it’s a pretty cool course, covering both some vector calculus and, also, some complex analysis. I have to say that I find it quite enthralling to work out integrals like using contour integrals; it’s all quite funky.

Anyway, I’m going to fix a few things on the site, and then get back to revision. I shall return later with more things of a posting nature.

1:42 pm | Posted in Computing, Maths, Site Development, Web Development