Posted by Blinky the Shark on 06/22/06 05:22

Nik Coughlin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this page that I am working on about 3 column layouts with rounded
> corners, alpha etc.
>
> http://www.nrkn.com/3ColRoundAlpha/
>
> It's unfinished, but while testing I've noticed something strange. I have
> taken some screenshots to illustrate this:
>
> http://www.nrkn.com/3ColRoundAlpha/problem/
>
> The page looks like I expect it to under IE, Opera and Firefox (6/7,
> 8.54/9b, 1.5) *locally*.
>
> Just in Firefox though, something weird happens. If I minimise and then
> restore Firefox while on the local copy of the page, all the parts of the
> page that have a png with alpha transparency become darker except for the
> png which is the background for the right-hand side of boxes, which looks
> normal.
>
> Now, if I upload the exact directory structure to my website and view it
> with *any* browser, the right-hand background mentioned above is missing
> entirely.
>
> Is it just me or does it look like that to everyone else too?
>
> Big WTF!
>
> First, what's this weird thing that FF is doing? Something to do with the
> gamma in the png or something? Weird.
>
> Second, what's different about the right-hand background? It doesn't
> trigger the gamma-bug thing mentioned above in FF and you can't see the
> background at all in any browser.

I don't see missing bg image or darkening, but I do see this:

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/comp/nik1.jpg

FF 1.5.0.1 / Linux

And pretty much the same thing with Konqueror 3.4.2, except that fine
horizontal line above the first line of that panel is not there.

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