Welcome to the new Flixn!

A few months ago, we closed the chapter of Flixn.com entitled “Version 1″.  It was an incredible ride and the myriad of ways which our users, both corporate and individual, have used the technology we provided has led us to where we are now. Today, we are pleased to be able to unveil Flixn.com Version 2.

We’re also announcing two new products today: The Flixn Media Platform (FMP) and the Flixn Delivery Network (FDN).  Both are currently in “closed demonstration”, meaning that while functional, we’ll only be allowing our former and a few prospective clients to get onboard before our official rollout a bit later this year.  I’m not going to go into great detail here, as I’m not as eloquent as our marketing guys, but you can get a brief overview of the offerings here (FMP) and here (FDN).

Over the next couple of we...

A Better IE 5.5 and 6 PNG Fix

… So there I was, in the wake of an unexpected and tragic steamroller accident involving the entirety of the production design staff. … “Wait, you mean I have to cut and implement all the new Flixn designs? Me? Well, ok, this shouldn’t be too hard. I will just slice each element out with alpha transparency preserved in PNG’s, then layer them using CSS just like they are in Photoshop.” … “Wait, wait, what do you mean that won’t work?”

Back in reality, the lack of true support for PNG alpha transparency in Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 has been nipping at us and many other people for at least 4 or 5 years now. Given that browsers that are fully supporting are in the 70%+ market share range, we decided that it was time to come up with a proper “fix” that would allow our alpha transparent PNG’s to degrade gracefully on now effectively “legacy” versions of IE.

Many web developers out there...