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UI kvetching

AnonusAnonus
in General
I have no better title for this, so:


Why is it that now we have to, like, have "viewed images" in browsers appear on dark backgrounds or, if transparent PNGs, with those "transparent" patterns behind them?

They're on transparent backgrounds for a reason.

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  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    You'd rather see them on a white background, or...?
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Yeah
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    But how do you tell white from transparent!
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    The issue is that those stupid checkerboard patterns fuck with my perception of things kinda

    And when proofing designs I could always count on browsers not having those
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I tried looking at a transparent image in a couple different browsers just to see how they handle it.

    Chrome (and presumably Chromium-based browsers like Vivaldi and Opera) put it on the checkerboard patterned background, like image editors use to indicate transparency. The space outside the image borders is black.

    Firefox (version 57; I don't have any older ones handy) put it on a light grey background. The space outside the image borders is dark grey.

    Edge, in something I imagine hasn't been changed since the IE days, does it the way most browsers used to, with the image on a white background and aligned to the top left.
  • HexartesHexartes
    I think a general UI kvetching thread is a good idea actually

    For example:
    I think the music program Tracktion has an abominable UI and Jane agrees

    I couldn't play Puzzle and Dragon because the UI was just. Too much.
  • vtkvtk
    embrace the confusion
    There's probably some kind of style override you can use to change the background treatment of naked image files
  • vtkvtk
    embrace the confusion
    I think I tried to do something like that using the Stylish extension in Firefox once. Don't remember if I had any success.
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