ruby script/plugin install http://svn.wheremydogs.at/painless_png/tags/painless_png

How does it work?
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The Painless PNG plugin monkey patches the image_tag method such that

* If the browser is Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6.x then it uses the AlphaImageLoader filter method prescribed by Microsoft
* For all other browsers it uses the default image_tag method from the Rails framework

This happens behind the scenes, transparently to your Rails application.


Sounds too good to be true, where’s the catch?
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For HTML, there’s none. That is, provided you’ve been using the image_tag method to place your images rather than hand-coding tags.

The only exception is that the plugin won’t work for PNG images used in CSS stylesheets.

There is currently no advanced documentation for this plugin.