[thelist] ComplexSpiral is working!

[Stephen Rider]

On Jan 12, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Joshua Olson wrote:

>> Many of you have probably seen Eric Meyer's "ComplexSpiral" demo

>> I... made it work.  IE Windows and Mac, Firefox, Safari.

>> <http://www.striderweb.com/webcraft/complexspiral/>
>
> [Y]ou've used checkboard GIF's to accomplish the illusion of 
> semi-opacity.  I'm afraid that technique is... definitely not what 
> Eric had in mind.

Well... Yes, that technique was arguably exactly what Eric had in mind 
:-)  -- it's the compromise that he himself made for IE. (see his 
Complex Spiral Devolved:
  <http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo2.html>)

What I accomplished here was that Eric's "fallback" failed to display 
in IE 6 (the page looked seriously broken), but now it works.  And 
whenever Microsoft gets around to fixing the "position: fixed" bug in 
IE, changing one line of code will allow that (theoretical future) 
version of IE to display the full effect, while _still_ providing the 
fallback to IE5 and 6.

Any other browser will show the full effect -- the "checkerboard gif" 
is simply an approximation of the effect that IE can handle.

You could of course drop in a solid background, or patterned image, or 
anything you like for IE.  Take a look at the page in Firefox, 
Netscape, Safari, Opera, what have you (anything _but_ IE or *ahem* 
Netscape 4), and you'll see the full effect sans flicker.

Regards,
Steve