Apparently there’s some sort of issue with PNG transparency on Internet Explorer browser pre-IE6. There’s a workaround for it; but that workaround does not work on Facebook pages. Web developers are unhappy about this.
http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?id=1799
There seem to be a lot of Facebook developers who don’t speak English well. Like, the majority of the posts on the FB developer forums. I’m not sure what this means.
Anyway this thread features my pet peeve, most-hated dysfunctional tech post answer: “Just use [something else]!” The person saying this always seems to believe that they are absolutely brilliant and clever. “Just use Firefox!” “Just use a Mac!” In this case the response is “Just don’t use PNG!”
Grrr.
I was happy to see someone come back right after that comment with:
OR
don’t use images at all…
use only black and white colors in your web page…
turn off your computer…
That made me smile.
Then the developers start lamenting that they couldn’t use animated GIFs on Facebook… and the same moron as before came back and asked “Why would you use PNG rather than GIF on the internet?”
And I decided maybe I should just turn off my computer. Forever. Ugh.