On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Daniel Schwen <[email protected]> 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.

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