849983 - Don't put a light background color on img.decoded

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Potch [:potch]]

Multiple times a week, I use a URL to exchange an image resource with a colleague. Most of the time, those resources are alpha-transparent PNGs. Each time, the conversation is the same:

    "I need that image with a transparent background"
    "It *has* a transparent background"
    "Not on my computer."
    "Oh. Save it to your hard drive and open it elsewhere- it will look correct there."

Example: http://people.mozilla.org/~mclaypotch/r2d2b2g/r2d2b2g.png

This shouldn't be necessary. I absolutely love the dark bg centered lightbox for the standalone image preview, but the light background placed behind img.decoded just makes things confusing. Can we remove it?

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Alas, no, see bug 754133 and bug 743474. We tried not having a white background, but there are enough dumb images that use transparency instead of an actual background color that we switched it back. :(

I recommend Jared's add-on that reverts this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/transparent-standalone-imag/