Last modified: 2011-04-05 23:28:42 UTC
The white background is ugly...
Doesn't out default one (/trunk/phase3/skins/common/images/ajax-loader.gif) have a transparent background that could be used?
s/out/our/
Problem is, animated GIFs only have a 1-bit alpha channel for transparency, so each GIF can only be anti-aliased to a single color. PNGs have 8-bit alpha channels and thus no uglyness, but you can't easily animate PNGs. There are 2 different solutions available: 1. Create several different animated GIF spinners - each anti-aliased to a different color. 2. Create a non-animated PNG spinner, and spin it with some fancy javascript/css. Unfortunately this doesn't work in Opera and some older browsers.
1. For multiple backgrounds -- I made these at http://www.ajaxload.info/ so that's easily done 2. No, this is not worth it. Another option: 3. eliminate the grey tint block that goes on alternating rows.
Fixed in r85489.