[sIFR3-dev] Small mystery bug

[Ken Dunnington]

I just saw this post on the TextDrive forum:
"Mac Firefox hides sIFR text after it renders"
http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?id=11062

I can verify that this was my FF/Mac problem. The elements underneath the
sIFR text were, even in their static state, set to opacity of 0.99999.
Turning off the slideshow, as you suggest, made the text visible. I will put
in a check for FF/Mac and display my fallback text. I haven't done a simpler
test (i.e. div with opacity set with sIFR text on top) yet, but it seems
very likely that this is a bug in Firefox on the Mac.

I am now having problems with the drop shadows not showing consistently, of
course, but I'll figure that out later. :) Thanks for all your help, Mark!

On 7/20/06, Mark Wubben <mark at novemberborn.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Mark Wubben
> http://novemberborn.net/
>
>
>
>


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