On 11/27/06, Erik Moeller <erik(a)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.
