On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Daniel Schwen <lists(a)schwen.de> wrote:
So you'd rather have it look crappy for everybody
rather than just for
IE6 users?
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I didn't say that. But we would have to evaluate the impact of our
changes on IE6, which is like 15% of Wikipedia's audience last I
checked. In particular, just using alpha channels without regard to
IE6 would greatly degrade display in IE6, but improve appearance in
other browsers only slightly (since in almost all cases, equations are
on a white background anyway).
The obvious first step is to use binary transparency for the white
background, which won't hurt IE6 or any other browser. It will leave
a somewhat ugly white halo around the text in non-IE6 browsers if it's
not on a white background, but that's probably better than an entire
block of pure white as we have now.