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Cleartype sucks

Started by corourke · 10 months ago

Nice post title eh? Well it’s how I really feel considering I’ve been trying to fix an issue with the way Windows IE renders pages when using the Cleartype engine. Even if Cleartype is on system wide Firefox and Opera don’t bat an eye at it. IE6 and IE7 both ren ... Continue reading »

5 comments

  • Joe

    3 years ago

    Yeah, I've seen that issue too before in IE6 when fading text in and out (as you mentioned). I think the work around I did was to just not have that effect :-/
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  • Chris

    3 years ago

    yeah it's really tragic that a great effect that works well and is part of the wc3 standards (which Microsoft is purportedly a contributing member, not that they contribute too much).

    I guess IE 8 which is slated for a July 2011 release will probably fix the issue.
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  • Ang

    3 years ago

    Let us know if you ever get a response.
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  • Andrew

    2 years ago

    You can avoid this problem by setting a background-color on the same element that you are setting the opacity to. For example:

    #example {
    opacity: 0.5;
    filter: alpha(opacity=50);
    -moz-opacity: 0.5;
    background-color: #fff;
    }
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  • Chris

    2 years ago

    That is a valid workaround but it's also somewhat of a hack.
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