[busted]

This has actually tripped me up a lot. In many figurative contexts, like "transparent government" for instance, transparent means the mechanisms are apparent or not hidden. However, when talking about computer processes or interfaces, it always means quite the opposite, "invisible to the user". So tiles used it correctly when he commented on how SPDY usage was transparent because he (the user) was unaware of it.

[cabalamat]

Indeed. It's a word that can be perceived in two ways, with radically different meanings. Better to use another one.

[zachrose]

Auto-antonyms! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym

[pyre]

Depends. tiles used:

  > The transparency with which Chrome did this
  > was actually a problem for me

"with which Chrome did this" -- to me -- inferred that he was referring to the development group when he said "Chrome" (and also was referring to the process with which they executed said upgrade). This would imply transparency in the 'apparent or not hidden' sense being applied to the Chrome development group and/or the process that they were using.

Just sayin'. The choice of words was a little ambiguous in that it could be taken either way, and that wildly changes the meaning of the word 'transparent.'