[jQuery] Re: Strange bold look after a show in IE6

2008-03-29 Thread Mike Alsup
Or, as Snef mentioned, you can define a background color in your stylesheet for the element that is being faded. Setting the background color will only fix the issue in IE6 and only for certain font sizes. IE7 will still display the text poorly if cleartype is enabled. A more general fix

[jQuery] Re: Strange bold look after a show in IE6

2008-03-29 Thread Karl Swedberg
Absolutely. Thanks for the clarification (no pun intended), Mike. It seemed the OP was referring specifically to IE6, but a more robust solution is definitely called for. Cheers, --Karl _ Karl Swedberg www.englishrules.com www.learningjquery.com On Mar 29, 2008, at 8:17

[jQuery] Re: Strange bold look after a show in IE6

2008-03-29 Thread Olivier Percebois-Garve
Thanks guys for extensive answers Setting a background partially solved the issue. I'll investigate more on this back at work on Monday. It seems that YUI is slightly better on this than jQuery. http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/msieopacityissue/ Mike, I will test your plugin, once I get back to a

[jQuery] Re: Strange bold look after a show in IE6

2008-03-29 Thread Mike Alsup
Mike, I will test your plugin, once I get back to a buggy LCD screen. Is it doing the same as YUI ? What is YUI doing?

[jQuery] Re: Strange bold look after a show in IE6

2008-03-28 Thread Snef
Try to use a background Olivier Percebois-Garve wrote: Hi all, I'm using animate({opacity: 1}); It produces a strange effect on IE6 where the text appears sort of bold (or sort of duplicated) and a little dirty. With show() I see this effect during the transition, but when it is finished

[jQuery] Re: Strange bold look after a show in IE6

2008-03-28 Thread Tamm Sjödin
just as a tip, a blank.gif usually works as well as any background in this fix (1x1 pixels filled with nothing for any beginners ^^) Live long and prosper, Tamm Sjödin On Mar 28, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Snef wrote: Try to use a background Olivier Percebois-Garve wrote: Hi all, I'm using

[jQuery] Re: Strange bold look after a show in IE6

2008-03-28 Thread rorschak
This normally only affects IE6 when using an LCD monitor. It has to due with the font-smoothing settings on your monitor. LCDs use Cleartype by default (I believe), which when using an opacity on your show effect produces that fuzzy look. If you turn off Cleartype on your monitor this should

[jQuery] Re: Strange bold look after a show in IE6

2008-03-28 Thread Karl Swedberg
On Mar 28, 2008, at 2:41 PM, rorschak wrote: This normally only affects IE6 when using an LCD monitor. It has to due with the font-smoothing settings on your monitor. LCDs use Cleartype by default (I believe), which when using an opacity on your show effect produces that fuzzy