[OpenLayers-Users] IE6 requests FORMAT=image/GIF - solved

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 08:23:29AM +0300, Lehtonen, Mika wrote:
> Does anyone know how to deal with the png transparency in IE6 with 
> WMS-requests? If I set overlay layer to transparent (transparent:true), 
> it isn't transparent in IE6. I know I can add alpha:true which makes 
> pngs' transparent also in IE6, but it makes the service to be extremely 
> slow.

Correct.

> On the other hand, setting format to image/gif won't help.

Why not?

Regards,
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Christopher Schmidt
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