Thanks for the reply Thomas. Unfortunately it doesn't look I can fix
it in this case. I'm assuming this will be fixed with the new
rendering engine in FF 3, which ties into the updated OSX rendering
routines. Again, thanks for taking time to answer - and
Script.aculo.us rocks. ;)

On 12/13/06, Thomas Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think you're experiencing a firefox bug here, that is it switches
> from the Mac OS X-native text antialiasing to it's own antialiasing
> when the opacity less then 100% -- which produces inferior results.
> Plus, the rendering engine, in some situations, seems to extend this
> to other, non-related elements.
>
> While this is something the Firefox devs have to fix at some point,
> one thing that _possibly_ solves this is to move your image or text
> to an other place in the DOM (while maintaing the position with CSS).
> No guarantees here.
>
> Best,
> Thomas
>
> Am 13.12.2006 um 16:58 schrieb Jason Hummel:
>
> >
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I have a series of thumbnails that have a loading overlay placed over
> > them when they're clicked on. The overlay is set to an opacity of .7..
> > .The onclick code looks basically does this:
> >
> > var loading = document.createElement('div');
> > loading.id = 'loading_image';
> > $(loading).addClassName('thumb_loading');
> > $('container').appendChild(loading);
> > Position.clone($('myThumbnail').parentNode,$('loading_image'));
> > new Effect.Opacity($('loading_image'),{duration: .2, to: .7});
> >
> > As long as the loading image is displayed (not just while it's
> > actively changing opacity) All the text on the page in FIrefox Mac
> > dims slightly. The images are left alone, only the text dims. Has
> > anyone else ran into something like this? Firefox 1.5 and 2.0
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > >
>
>
> >
>

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