On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Freako F. Freakolowsky <[email protected]> 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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