Is it possible to render web content over a clear background using WebKit?

Question

I\'m trying to gauge the possibility of a patch to WebKit which would allow all rendered graphics to be rendered onto a fully transparent background.

The desired eff

Answer 1

Basically you want to be setting the ARGB colour space to be sending to the window manager. Obviously only window managers that support compositing will be able to take advantage of this.

You might want to talk to the screenlet and compiz developers they should be able to help out more.