bug#27086: perhaps always use a white background when viewing transparent PNGs etc.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> LI> Then there's nothing we can do here -- the PNG itself is badly made
> LI> (instead of using alpha channels it's just marking pixels as either
> LI> fully transparent or fully opaque).
>
> Well looks great in Firefox.
> Firefox always does the right thing.

Sounds like Firefox defaults to white backgrounds on these images, but
if the PNG had been constructed the other way (towards black), then that
would have looked equally bad.

So it doesn't seem like there's anything we can do here.

Did you forward the original PNG file to the bug tracker?

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