Blinking pictures

JamesJWeg · April 1, 2005

When I am in a gallery in Elegant or Elegant small if I move my mouse around the screen without clicking the photo displayed in medium or small blinks as the mouse moves over it or other photo's. What causes this? SM problem or browser?

see this movie for example.
http://www.jamesjweg.com/stuff/dscn5045.mov

James.

{JT} · April 1, 2005

It is a browser problem (IE) because of the way we do image protection. Here are the details on how you can fix it:
http://www.jcornelius.com/articles/archives/20041004/solving-ie-image-flicker/

An easier fix would be to of course download Firefox

... or buy a Mac

JamesJWeg wrote:

When I am in a gallery in Elegant or Elegant small if I move my mouse around the screen without clicking the photo displayed in medium or small blinks as the mouse moves over it or other photo's. What causes this? SM problem or browser?

see this movie for example.
http://www.jamesjweg.com/stuff/dscn5045.mov

James.

JamesJWeg · April 1, 2005

{JT} wrote:

It is a browser problem (IE) because of the way we do image protection. Here are the details on how you can fix it:
http://www.jcornelius.com/articles/archives/20041004/solving-ie-image-flicker/

An easier fix would be to of course download Firefox

... or buy a Mac

I am a Mac nut, all my personal systems are mac, and I use and love firefox, but your not gonna mod up every system you use when you do what I do. That's a easy fix, but a bummer too, I had changed that setting because I was not seeing replies to posts on advrider untill closing and reopeing IE.

Thanks for the info.

James.

rainforest1155 · April 2, 2005

{JT} wrote:

It is a browser problem (IE) because of the way we do image protection. Here are the details on how you can fix it:
http://www.jcornelius.com/articles/archives/20041004/solving-ie-image-flicker/

An easier fix would be to of course download Firefox

... or buy a Mac

Interesting article, it's even more interesting that they propose a server-side solution! You are running SM on Apache, aren't you? Can't you just apply this server fix? If you are not running Apache, maybe there's a solution for your type, too? So tell us what kind of server you're running and maybe I can dig some up.

Sebastian

onethumb · April 2, 2005

rainforest1155 wrote:

Interesting article, it's even more interesting that they propose a server-side solution! You are running SM on Apache, aren't you? Can't you just apply this server fix? If you are not running Apache, maybe there's a solution for your type, too? So tell us what kind of server you're running and maybe I can dig some up.

Sebastian

Alas, it's not quite that simple. Smugmug's photos aren't static - they change, and frequently! I can't predict a valid "Expires" date because people are constantly rotating, cropping, and color correcting their photos... without a verified current version, you'd see distorted photos.

Don

rainforest1155 · April 2, 2005

onethumb wrote:

Alas, it's not quite that simple. Smugmug's photos aren't static - they change, and frequently! I can't predict a valid "Expires" date because people are constantly rotating, cropping, and color correcting their photos... without a verified current version, you'd see distorted photos.

Thanks for the problem description, it was worth a try.

Sebastian

System · April 3, 2005

It seems a bit strange that you go to the trouble using scripts and cool css to do image protection when every pic someone opens is already saved on the viewer's computer no matter what tricks you do. I don't understand why you allow the default css sheets to act buggy when using ie? Examples being the blinky image display mentioned above and artifacts in the slideshows mentioned elsewhere. I like firefox and other browsers too, but as everyone knows, 90 plus percent of browsers used today are ie. Seems the default css sheets should run smooth with ie first and firefox second, but what the heck do I know about all of this anyway?? Maybe someone can enlighten me on this? I suppose the generic answer here is the css tricks stop the casual pirates, and the blinking is do to an ie bug or setting. I am just not sure if it is the casual pirates that we should be worried about most. I think the blinky rollover effect has to be annoying to many casual browsers who do not use the auto-refresh setting. Maybe someone has some stats or conclusive spin on all of this. Thanks for listening.

-don

{JT} · April 3, 2005

This will be resolved in the upcoming templates by switching to pure CSS hover styles and not using javascript. Of course IE may not be able handle them ... but at least you won't have the blinking problem.

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