[thelist] Suckerfish

[Simon Perry]

Rob Smith wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I gave you this site yesterday:
>http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/example/
>
>It worked fine on a win 2k pro box using IE 6.1, FF 1, NS 7.2, and Opera
>6.05 doesn't have a clue. My brother tried it on OS X and didn't report any
>problems. I'm assuming it worked in Safari and possibly FF/IE too. 
>
>However, when I got home last night to my XP Home IE 6.1, it started to
>flicker when I hovered over the links. I just checked with my colleague here
>at work and it worked fine on XP Pro.
>
>A) Why would it do that at my home PC and not anywhere else?
>
This is very common behavior for IE when handling CSS. It will be that 
you have the IE cache at home set to check for a new version on every 
visit to the page and this triggers another of those lovely IE bugs. 
Explained well by Dean Edwards[0] who even has a server side fix to 
prevent it.

Quick question, did you STFW[1] for this before posting? Out of 
interest, I did a quick search for "suckerfish IE flicker" and got a 
full page of relevant explanations.

HTH

Simon


[0] http://dean.edwards.name/my/flicker.html
[1] http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=suckerfish+IE+flicker