[sIFR3-dev] Small mystery bug

[Mark Wubben]

On Jul 18, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Ken Dunnington wrote:
> The "cutoff" issue seems to have been solved by making sure  
> bAutoInit is
> true. I can reliably duplicate the problem by setting it to false.

Interesting, that's something to look into.

> Setting this to false will also cause Safari to never render the  
> text, though this
> could be a problem with dojo's addOnLoad method?

Perhaps, Safari needs an onload event, which isn't there without auto  
init. Could also be an oversight on my part, but right now I'm too  
tired to think about this.

> Is using sIFR.setup() in the head, and then calling sIFR(); later  
> on proper use?

Yes.

> I can't for the life of me figure out why FF/Mac is not displaying  
> the SWF
> text though. It's there in the DOM tree, and in fact if I remove  
> the wMode
> parameter it will appear temporarily if selected, but it disappears  
> shortly
> afterwards. This might be related to the slide show swapping images  
> from
> z-index 1 to 2, but the spans which contain the SWF object are all  
> set to
> z-index 3, and are working in the other browsers. Is there some  
> peculiarity
> with FF/Mac I've forgotten about?

It's very odd. When I remove the DIV they still don't show. Perhaps  
you could try to make them show up without the Dojo animation first?  
I'm on a PowerPC Mac btw, so it's not related to the chipset.

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