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 <[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. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
