On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com<Simetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Alexander Shulgin
> <alex.shulgin(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> >
Today, while reading my morning load of news I've come across a
> > Wikipedia article[1] with some embedded LaTeX formulae, used within a
> > table. The table header on that page has background of a distinct
> > color which makes formula images look ugly.
>
> See bug:
>
>
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8
>
> As far as I know, the only thing actually blocking us from doing this
> was something like IE5 on Mac printing transparent images with black
> backgrounds. That's probably not relevant anymore. We're still stuck
> with the fact that IE6 doesn't support alpha channels, though -- we
> could make the fully-transparent parts of the background transparent,
> but I don't see how we could avoid aliasing effects on sane browsers
> without making things look extremely ugly on IE6.
>
Aren't there various workarounds using JS and filters for IE6?
Marco
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