Archive for July, 2008

Curved corner images in rmagick

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

RMagick is a great ruby library for image manipulation – it’s basically a wrapper around the venerable ImageMagick libraries.  There are some complexities around installing it on some platforms, and you have to be careful with garbage collection, but it’s still very easy to use and very powerful.
The curved corner images I used in previous [...]

Sigh – ie6 defeats my cunningness

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Well, my previous post and linked page seems to work nicely. (I did fix a minor glitch in ie7)
However, since then I’ve done some more reading – and my conclusion is, don’t do what I did – ie6 png transparency is just too risky. Have a read of the discussion at http://blogs.cozi.com/tech/2008/03/transparent-png.html?cid=106552420 – [...]