User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Design your own photo galleries/@comment-126761-20100722085011

Cienca Al Poder, printing issue is still being looked into.

The general issue with having an "old style" option is that the new code is pretty different. It wouldn't support variable borders, or caption changes, for example. It would also be much more difficult to support in the long term, and introduce unexpected inconsistencies.

We want your galleries to look cool, so we're still looking at what we can do.

The reason the background color shows is because it helps show that it is a photo spot during loading (and it is a 'useful' consequence of using the accent class). However, I agree this can sometimes look odd for transparent images. A quick fix is to set the image border color yourself - these have no associated background color. (I'll look into suggestions of removing it more generally).

Anon, on divs/spans - it's being looked into, but it's hardly high priority.