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Topic: Version 9.05, PNG's/GIF's

Posted By: iSec
Subject: Version 9.05, PNG's/GIF's
Date Posted: 11 September 2007 at 4:45pm

Firstly, I want to say THANK YOU for the great efforts and for providing us with more options on how to use the forum with png's and gif's.

My question is, is changing from PNG to GIF still done from the includes/topic_status_icons_inc.asp file?

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-Charles A. Beard

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 September 2007 at 4:54pm

It is done in that file but it's not setup in that file.

In the file includes/global_variables_inc.asp a variable for image type is set to either .png or .gif depending on the browser you are using. This is then used throughout the forum when selecting which images to display.

If you are using IE 7, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. you see the nice PNG images, if you are using IE 6 or below you see GIF images, which don't look quite as nice, but will render faster in these older versions of IE which do not natively support PNG's alpha channel.

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Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 11 September 2007 at 5:39pm

Thanks Borg, so just to clarify ... since there are users of all kind of browsers, does it know which image type to display based on the browser the user is using? Or do we need to go into the includes/variables_inc.asp and tell it which image type to display to ALL users?

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-Charles A. Beard

Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 11 September 2007 at 5:45pm

WOW, i just saw this:

'Check the client browser version
strClientBrowserVersion = browserDetect()

'If the cleint browser is IE 6 of below then display GIF's for some of the images
If strClientBrowserVersion = "MSIE6-" Then
strForumImageType = "gif"
Else
strForumImageType = "png"
End If

This is impressive, thank you very much!

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"When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars"
-Charles A. Beard