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[atheium]

After looking for a javascript tutorial on side-scrollers i found this bit of code in an example:

filter:chroma(color = magenta);

the example explained, it takes the color you declare and makes it transparent to the browser. this one worked in FF.

so, naturally i went to my bff online google and found this:
CSS Guides: IE CSS Visual Filters, SSI-Developer.net

Only in IE? this sucks! there has to be something for firefox that does something similar!

further investigation led me here:
CSS Transparency Settings for All Browsers | CSS-Tricks

This is absolutely ridiculous! what would be so hard about standardizing the way opacity is declared?
secondly why haven't the visual filters been implemented into Firefox and others?

[NastyDevil]

Its not hard to standardize, they just don't care because they are still making a lot of money; so they simply don't bother. And Firefox is a much stricter browser, it is much easier to develop for FF then IE. The worst thing i encountered so far tho is making rounded corners in IE: Firefox takes 1 line and IE has to use a whole JS function of like a page to do the same.

[Howdy_McGee]

I don't know a lot goes into standardizing.

Browsers have to re-release a new browser to deal with this new standard. Every browser. Which is a lot of trouble that isn't worth it for only 1 standard.

A good way to make round corners what I've always done is making an image exactly the width/height I need and making it a background image for a div. Hopefully w/ HTML 5 coming out in the next... umm... 5 years? it will be easier to do rounded borders (border-radius!)