On 11/27/06, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
The servers appear to be configured to render transparency in SVG using a chessboard pattern: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:LithuanianHistory.svg
Is that actually desired by anyone? It seems more useful for debugging purposes than for actually using images.
AFAIK it's only on the image page... it can be very useful there: for example, the large amount transparency in the file you linked is probably a bad idea, but without the checkerboard you couldn't see it.
I think we need to have a function to display transparency. I have no opinion on if that the image page should be overloaded to perform that function.