On 5 Jul 2006, at 23:54, David Hyatt wrote:
We're looking into this... it's the QuickTime plug-in that is flickering when scrolling. I looked at it on 10.4.6 on a PPC machine and 10.4.7 on an Intel machine and only saw the flickering on 10.4.7. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. (Note that Flash already has flickering problems when scrolling with Flash 8 because of a rendering mode they use only with Safari. I believe someone said Flash 9 might fix that issue.)
Actually, although that page was an easy one to reproduce a flicker, I have seen a more widespread flicker on a few pages that don't seem to have any plug-in based content. Since It happens so rarely, I didn't provide an example before. However since one such page did it for me again today I'll elaborate: I have a tabbed folder on my Safari bookmarks bar that contains the following URLs in this order: http://www.macintouch.com/ http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/index.shtml http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.thinksecret.com/ http://www.macosrumors.com/ http://www.macoszone.com/ When I click on that folder, all the pages start to open with MacinTouch being in the front tab. Once in a while (maybe the first time every day?) Macintouch will draw and totally white-out several times in quick succession until it finally ends up with the finished content. I imagine that this is partly due to images/css or other media coming in at different times that forces a redraw, but I don't remember it ever whiting out between redraws before 10.4.7. (This tabbed folder has usually been the first thing I click on when launching Safari, so I am sure I would have noticed it in an earlier OS) Doing it again just now, I see that although Macintouch redraws a couple of times while loading, there is no white-out between them. Emptying the cache didn't help in reproducing it either. Matt Gough