[thelist] Flickery rollovers are ruining my life

Gary McPherson lists at ingenyus.net
Mon Oct 4 20:23:44 CDT 2004


----Original Message----
From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Chris Kavanagh
Sent: 05 October 2004 01:37
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Flickery rollovers are ruining my life

> Dear list,
> 
> My latest design uses rollover images, and even though I have
> told the accursed pages in question to preload the rollover
> images, they often "flicker" as the user mouses over them. This is
> *ugly and annoying*. 
> 
> Here's my prototype:
> www.logorocks.com/snarkpeek
> 
> Can anyone help me solve this horrifying problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> CK.

No flicker in IE (caching off), Firefox or Opera. However, as previously
noted, the preloading is being executed on the body onload (why?), so
there's a delay up to the point when I can actually see any rollover images,
but still no flickering. Interesting layout, though!

Gary




More information about the thelist mailing list