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Just when the talk of dropping IE6 support heats up again, Unit Interactive has a new PNG Fix solution for IE6.

In this new version of their PNG fix for IE6, they’ve fixed page element functionality issues with background PNG’s.  Something that’s plagued nearly every PNG fix for IE6 that I’ve come across (more on this in a bit).  Thanks to Jeff Leombruno, they’ve also taken out the requirement to have a width and height definition on the IMG tag.  Last but not least, thanks to Marcos Fernández they’ve cached the regexp and optimized the loop to speed things up quite a bit - especially for pages with a lot of elements.

Although they’ve got the background images working so that it will work with the CSS background-repeat attribute, it’s not working like it should.  Unfortunately this is due to IE6’s filter property which doesn’t allow it too.  What it does is read the element’s CSS and if background-repeat is in use, the image is stretched to fill the element background.  It’s not ideal, but what more can you ask for from an IE6 PNG fix?

Head on over to Unit Interactive Labs now to get the Unit PNG Fix for IE6.