Ditto for me on all this. I tried changing mice, uninstalling Logitech's control center, changing keyboards, etc. Last night I turned off text-smoothing in IE, and had no more problems with disappearing text. I have avoided using Entourage for that reason, but will try it today.
Ken Frazier On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 03:44 AM, Paul Bentley wrote: > On 23/9/02 6:09, "Dan Crevier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can you repeat what the problem was? I think I missed it. I don't >> know of >> any problems with IE or Entourage with text smoothing on. > > Hi Dan > > Mac OS X 10.2.1, dual USB iBook 500. (This was also happening in 10.1, > and > in 10 judging by the replies I got on the OS X list.) > > In IE (v5.2.1) when you open a web site there will often be text and > graphics missing in the display. It's there, if you just move your > mouse > around on the blank areas it will re-appear. Sometimes you have to > click to > get the missing items to appear. Refresh doesn't always do it. And > revealing > a missing item will quite often mean text that was visible before > disappears > somewhere else. Happens on a very wide range of sites, Version Tracker, > O'Reilly, you name it. > > In Entourage (v10.1.0 (2006) with SR 1) sometimes the text you're > typing > will randomly appear and disappear as you type. As before it is there > and > you can get it to display by running your mouse over it. You can cut > and > paste into a new message and still have the same thing happen if you > continue typing. Interestingly the saw tooth underline for a spelling > error > remains visible even when the text isn't! > > Switching off smoothing in both IE and Entourage seems to have stopped > it > happening, at least I haven't experienced it since I did this > yesterday. And > yesterday it was particularly bad, almost to the point where I > couldn't type > at all it was so distracting. Switching it back on now is it happening > again? No. But then this comes and goes anyway. > > It appears to happen in Word too. I haven't used Word very much so I > can't > comment but this is Joan Keenan's reply to the message I posted on the > OS X > list about this issue with the 'fix': > >> This was answered on one of the lists recently...I know because it >> solved the problem for me, at least in IE. Go to preferences---Web >> Browser---Interface Extras---uncheck the box at the bottom by Enable >> Quartz text smoothing. >> Now I have to figure out where this option is in Word as I had the >> problem there too, but haven't opened Word in awhile to see if it is >> still happening. > > I hope this explains the problem clearly enough. Please get back to me > if > you'd like more information. > > pb > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
