RE: FN-FORUM: Comments please

date posted 25th July 2004 10:32

>The default setting on IE is "automatically" so most people won't ever
see the flashing.

True - but arnt we trying to serve something that works in all browsers? as
IE dominates, the percentage of people with IE set to reload every visit is
likely to be higher than Opera viewers, so IMO it need fixing!

As the images are so small I would load them to the cache using 1x1 pixel
images just under the tag, that should stop it

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Tony
> Crockford
> Sent: 25 July 2004 12:11
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Comments please
>
>
>
> At 10:59 on Sunday, 25 Jul 2004, Mike wrote:
>
> >
> >> I bet you've got IE6 set to refresh on every page visit rather than the
> >> default (automatically)?
> >
> > Yes I have - maybe load the images to the cache as 1x1px's
> would help -
> > its
> > kind of off putting seeing the menu disappear!
>
> There's only 2 images (1.3k and 3.5k). You're not caching them
> properly,
> that's the problem, IE can't handle background image position
> changes with
> refresh every page set.
>
> The default setting on IE is "automatically" so most people won't ever
> see the flashing.
>
>
> >
> >> I'm anti browser sniffing of any sort - I'm just filtering the CSS on a
> >> broad scale. any UA that doesn't understand @import will get plain
> >> xhtml.
> >
> > mmm... im not, esp when IE5 on MAC exists, the rest are fairly easy to
> > build
> > one css for all - as long as your layout is simple.. ish, I
> have used the
> > @import trick a fews years back but dont bother now, simply use an asp
> > script to deliver the right css for the browser in use (in a general top
> > browser way - if its some wierd NS4.2 browser then it drops out the
> > bottom
> > and gets plain XHTML)
> >
> > Try a real complicated layout and, IMO, server side browser
> sniffing is
> > by
> > far the easiest way
> >
> > Mike
>
>
> point taken, there is only one CSS for all decent browsers, (IE5 on mac
> can have a weird layout - serve them right!)
>
>
>
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