Hey, don't get me wrong ... the current state works for me 100%, even if
wiki uses non-white background, i'm just throwing ideas here (and i do
realize it was a weak idea).
IMO these kind of tweaks should be in form of a cofigurable option so
people who want to use it and who think it won't screw up their system,
could use it. We should have an option to use alpha in PNG for math if
you think your wiki can exist without <IE6 compliance.
I'm NOT saying this should be used on WMF sites ... in fact i'm AGAINST
that. As much as it pains me to say this, all IE browsers still in
frequent use (if you can in fact call them browsers) should be supported.
That's all
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Freako F.
Freakolowsky <freak(a)drajv.si> wrote:
Havent read the whole thread, but why not just do
it the ol' school way.
Have texvc create two images one with alpha and the other without, and
then serve formula images depending on the user-agent.
Because that's a huge hassle for virtually zero benefit. You have to
generate, store, and cache twice as many images, and implement some
logic in Squid so it can serve different images to IE6 than everyone
else (plain Vary: User-Agent would mean generating like four billion
times as many images, not acceptable). On the other hand, the images
will be *totally* *indistinguishable* for *virtually* *all*
*articles*.
The current situation is *really* not a big problem that's worth
spending significant effort on.
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