On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Allison Bloodworth wrote: > What is the hack for the safari oversized background-repeat bug? I > seem to > be having this problem right now. I found this URL referred to on > another > page (http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2003/01/09/2152), but > apparently > he doesn't want us to use this hack anymore because it's been removed: > http://diveintomark.org/safari/csshacks/safari-spacer-hack.html.
This describes that hack. It only worked on beta versions. http://www.dithered.com/css_filters/css_only/safari_spacer_hack.html The oversized background-repeat bug (don't know if anyone's formally described/named it) involves Safari failing to recognize no-repeat on background images that are larger than the area they cover. Because they are larger, and no-repeat is desired, you would only see this in cases where you shift the position of the background off the edge, and so it starts to repeat with an offset. (My Bivia homepage http:// www.bivia.com illustrates this bug nicely, since it uses a rather outdated technique of overlaping backgrounds to give the appearance of translucency -- very state-of-the-art in 2001!) The best thing to do with Safari is re-code to avoid the need for a hack. That said, the original poster gave a hack that works on all current versions of Safari (AFAIK): html* your_regular_selector { /* styles */ } I believe the source of this is here: http://www.stormdetector.com/hacks/safarihack.html It's not a very good hack, because it isn't valid and isn't future compatible, since it Hacks The Living(tm). You should only Hack The Dead, so you know the hack won't have unintended consequences as new versions get released. Something I explored but never finished up and published that may be considered a Dead-Safari hack uses case sensitivity: http://www.bivia.com/sandbox/safari-hack/ This page tries three variations on a case-sensitivity hack, and the Basic and Child versions no longer get applied by Safari 2.0.x or 1.3.x. (The Alternate version does still Hack The Living, and so is a Bad Thing.) View the source to see how it works (note: the case of the CSS declaration does not match the case of the HTML class value), but if your problem is the current versions of Safari then it won't help much without causing more problems later. -- Ben Curtis : webwright bivia : a personal web studio http://www.bivia.com v: (818) 507-6613 ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
