WowAce

What is the enhancement in mind? How should it look and feel?

With a large chat box, most of the time it's only partially full of text.
Having a big empty colored background is not pleasing to the eye.
Making the background transparent makes it harder to read the chat.

Would it be possible to have a background line by line, or possibly an
auto-resizing background, maybe in a frame underneath? When a line
of text fades, so would the background behind that particular line.