Hello Jools
On 18-Feb-01, you wrote:
> to a background colour. it looks like a flood fill on a old art package :)
Eeek, this is kolla's site, right? I remember this :)
> i know its not compiled with optmising, but things like this were instant
> on voyager 3.2 (almost). onteh latest beta the stripes on the background also
> display in different colour from voyager 3.2.
You got a copy of an older beta lying around?
Go to http://www.planetquake.com in it, or http://www.enlightenment.org
or even http://www.helixcode.com and look at those awful white blobs that
are everywhere.
This is why V is slow backfilling: it needs to handle transparency in table
backgrounds etc. properly. To be honest, whoever is using a background
image that is 1x3 pixels needs to be shot in the head, it's common knowledge
that every blitting engine on the planet is optimised for a) even numbers of
pixels and b) multiples of 16 or 32 (and/or longword alignment).
(note: in IE, this page visibly draws the background here, too ;)
HTML may not be a page description language, and optimising for certain
platforms is heresy in some peoples' minds, but not knowing enough about
how people will view it is sure to make a site that at least one viewer will
trip on.
It's not like that rant is going to make anything better, but hey ;)
(Olli, is the transparency thing being used on real body backgrounds? I
don't think anyone checked what IE/NS did in this case..)
Thanks
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Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Website http://www.kittycat.co.uk
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