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Re: Cleartype sucks

Chris — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:18:24 -0000

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

Re: Cleartype sucks

Andrew — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:43:48 -0000

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;
}

Re: Cleartype sucks

Ang — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:37:21 -0000

Let us know if you ever get a response.

Re: Cleartype sucks

Chris — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:46:07 -0000

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.

Re: Cleartype sucks

Joe — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:18:05 -0000

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 :-/