Hey!

I'm new here and I hope someone could help me.

I am making a site for a friends company and I used template to create it. It works nicely in Firefox, but when I look at it with IE8, the browser reloads every image every time and navigating from one page to another creates a nasty flicker. Is there any way to fix this? Or should I use some other way to make the template?

link to test-site: http://www.lightlime.fi/testi/univet
link to css file: http://lightlime.fi/testi/univet/style.css

Thanks in advance,
Nunu

You have:
document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true);

I am no javascript expert but that could be the problem.

I think this is only used for IE6. You can try to remove it or ad it conditionally, though I wouldn't go to that extent for IE6.

Thanks for the reply. Tried that once again just to make sure. Not working. IE still loads the same bg image every time.

I think this one of those things IE is "designed" to do and I hope someone knows how to work around it somehow. I assume the bg image is cached every time, but instead of looking into the browser cache, the browser just sends a load request to the server. (Or how do you say that in correct way, I hope you understand what I mean).

What happens if you REMOVE the compatibility mode ??

How do you do that?

I have resolved this same flickering issue by doing the following:

Add the following two meta tags in the head section of your page:

<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="blendTrans(Duration=.01)" />
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="blendTrans(Duration=.01)" />

I believe you already have this in the head section of your web page, but add it if you don't:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
try
{
document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true);
}
catch(err) {}
</script>

This immediately resolved my issue with flickering in IE8. Hope this helps!

Mike

Hi to all,

I do have the same problem:

In IE8 the (big, screen-filling) background image is reloading every time i navigate.
Unfortunately none of the above hints helped.

<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="blendTrans(Duration=.01)" />
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="blendTrans(Duration=.01)" />
the Duration time is too short, but if it is longer, it looks like a powerpoint Transition;-)

the JavaScript did not do anything

here is a link to the page:
http://cs-solarsystems.amselrehhase.de/online/

has anybody any idea what could help?

thank you in advance
marcus