Re: [Camino] Weird Display Gliches & Other Oddities

On 12/4/06, Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>   Did something go haywire in recent nightly trunk builds?
>
Not really. On 11.27 part of the rendering engine got upgraded to use
Cairo, graphic rendering libraries.
> I'm suddenly getting some bad render problems.
> Various buttons show up as text only until i mouse over them, and
> then show up with the left and right ends missing a pixel or two.
> Check boxes aren't always showing up until the mouse touches them
> either.  On sites like google that column begins blank except for one
> check box.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362189
>
> Some form fields are showing up with whatever background color
> they're placed on and focus rings thick and incomplete while others
> are fine.
They are actually transparent
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361527

> Also, the type on buttons seems to be too small and nearer the bottom
> than the top.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362081

> Another problem i only observed once but will be on the look-out for.
> One tab was open and i clicked something (possibly a download link)
> which caused another tab to open. The problem was that when i
> subsequently ran the mouse over a link, it didn't change to the hand
> and clicking didn't do anything.  Then i noticed i was supposedly
> observing the contents of the second tab.  But actually i was just
> looking at an inert version of the first tab's content.  Once i
> clicked back to the first tab, the everything again became operational.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362549
>
> I'm currently observing the problems on Version 2006120222 (1.2+).
> Because of system problems i've recently done an Archive & Install of
> OS 10.4.8.  Also, i am using a new profile.
>
You're system is probably doing fine. All the problems you see are
just little side effects of improvements to the Gecko rendering
engine. Expect more little problems, temporary wackiness/craziness
over the coming weeks/months. More big changes under the hood are
coming.
Meanwhile, enjoy life on the bleeding edge :-).


-- 
Philippe Wittenbergh
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