IE8's rendering of transparent pngs is FUBARed on my site

Question

I just downloaded the IE8 full release so I could test a site I just created. [Example Deleted]

Focus on the left sidebar background image. It is suppose to be a 1x1 se

Answer 1

Thanks for the help on this issue -- what a weird bug.

I was also experiencing the issue on 50% of the computers running IE8 (had access to quite a few machines). When I had a 1x1px semi-transparent png set as a background image on a div with CSS, IE would render this as a funky vertical, transparent gradient.

Changing the source image to a 5x5px png of the same opacity fixed the bug... go IE!