For those needing the best RSS and Atom parser on the net, SimplePie answers the call. It’s light (one file) yet powerful enough for almost any job. (Float like butterfly, sting like bitch.) The documentation is amazing and the community of people backing it far exceeds anything else. OMG did I mention the caching feature??

When it comes to RSS parsing, I’ve been around the block - Magpie RSS is too complex, packed with features I’d never use. And Last RSS works sporadically - loving some server configurations and hating others.

Though Vanna White expresses her love for Arial, and Helvetica alike, at least she crushes the hearts of sans-serif fans. It’s clear she’s a Mac groupie. Sajak smartly diverts the question.

According to Microsoft support , correctly displaying PNG’s in Internet Explorer should be as simple as copying & pasting their example. This is the CSS that Microsoft claims will correctly display :

filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='image.png', sizingMethod='crop');

The above code will work for inline CSS, that is, CSS mixed with HTML:

<div id="png_bg" style="position:absolute; left:140px; height:400; width:400;
     filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(
     src='image.png', sizingMethod='crop');" >
</div>

If you don’t want to mix your CSS with your HTML, external style sheets are the obvious choice. However the above example won’t work in an external style sheet. Instead, the path to image.png needs to be absolute, like this: /direct/path/to/image.png

Your external style sheet would look something like this:

#png_bg {
    background-image: none;
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled=true, sizingMethod=crop, src='/path/to/image.png');
}

Shout at me if I got this all wrong.