On Apr 21, 2004, at 13:34, Gabriel Wicke wrote:
They could both be indexed, but i wouldn't like the indexed look in a modern browser, especially with the book behind it. The png hack for ie doesn't seem to work with some versions of 6.0. Giving ie an opaque background might be ok for the mediawiki logo, but imo not for a real site.
I think that would be perfectly acceptable for a small minority of users with such an incompatible configuration to get the opaque fallback. Certainly it's far more acceptable than having two logo files which will likely be frequently out of sync.
If the default logo was placed in the main style dir relative paths to that one would be possible as well. Any objections against this?
Yes, that would be rather inconvenient. On Wikipedia we have slightly different logo images for every wiki while the rest of the styles remain the same; this would then require maintaining dozens/hundreds of near-duplicate style directory trees, where now we've got a shared style tree and just adjust $wgLogo.
The trees would have to be carefully synced up to propagate updates without overwriting the logo all the time (this is a problem for third-party users as well; we should seek to minimize the amount of mucking about with internal files that has to be done).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
