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24.4.50; Emacs cannot display some gif images correctly under dark background

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Message #32 received at 17483 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Tu Do <tuhdo1710 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17483 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: bug#17483: 24.4.50; Emacs cannot display some gif images
 correctly under dark background
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:41:22 +0200

Tu Do <tuhdo1710 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I think viewing transparent gif image currently in Emacs is fine as it
> is, since the example image should be used in a light background to
> view its content. What I meant is about fixing Eww, since I
> encountered this issue in it. I think at least Eww background should
> be defaulted to white, not the background color of the current color
> theme. The default background color for a web browser is also white if
> no background color is defined in css. It would help in viewing many
> plain text web pages with transparent images.

It's true that traditionally web browsers have defaulted to a light
background, but that's kinda changing now with the popularity of "dark"
themes.

But in any case, I think eww should default to the background colour the
user has chosen, so I don't think there's any bug here to be fixed.

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