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position:fixed slows Mozilla Erik Sandblom 03-09-2005
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Posted by Erik Sandblom on March 9, 2005, 5:53 pm
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Hello

I'm trying to make some tooltips which are position:fixed. It works fine in
Opera and Safari/Konqueror, but in Firefox and Camino (ie Mozilla), it takes
a few seconds for each tooltip to display, and then to get hidden. If I use
position:absolute, the problem goes away, but the tooltips move around with
the containing, scrolling div.

..scroll { height: 400px; overflow: auto; }

http://transrail.se/new/ref-erik/

There are some missing alt tags so it doesn't validate, but I doubt that's
the problem.

Help! I hate browsers...

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Erik Sandblom
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Posted by David Ross on March 9, 2005, 12:18 pm
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Posted by David Ross on March 9, 2005, 12:20 pm
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Erik Sandblom wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I'm trying to make some tooltips which are position:fixed. It works fine in
> Opera and Safari/Konqueror, but in Firefox and Camino (ie Mozilla), it takes
> a few seconds for each tooltip to display, and then to get hidden. If I use
> position:absolute, the problem goes away, but the tooltips move around with
> the containing, scrolling div.
>
> .scroll { height: 400px; overflow: auto; }
>
> http://transrail.se/new/ref-erik/
>
> There are some missing alt tags so it doesn't validate, but I doubt that's
> the problem.
>
> Help! I hate browsers...

This might be a symptom of Mozilla bug #124150. See
<URL:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124150>.

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David E. Ross
<URL:http://www.rossde.com/>

I use Mozilla as my Web browser because I want a browser that
complies with Web standards. See <URL:http://www.mozilla.org/>.


Posted by Jim Ley on March 9, 2005, 5:10 pm
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On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:53:25 +0100, Erik Sandblom

>I'm trying to make some tooltips which are position:fixed. It works fine in
>Opera and Safari/Konqueror, but in Firefox and Camino (ie Mozilla), it takes
>a few seconds for each tooltip to display, and then to get hidden. If I use
>position:absolute, the problem goes away, but the tooltips move around with
>the containing, scrolling div.

any fixed elements severely impact performance in all browsers, think
about what has to happen, and I hope it'll be obvious why.

The solution is to not use fixed elements - or pick a faster browser.

Jim.
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Posted by Erik Sandblom on March 9, 2005, 6:52 pm
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i artikel 422f1fb2.58996802@news.individual.net, skrev Jim Ley på
jim@jibbering.com den 05-03-09 17.10:

> any fixed elements severely impact performance in all browsers, think
> about what has to happen, and I hope it'll be obvious why.


I don't get it. If it's fixed, it's always in the same place, so no
computation is necessary. Shouldn't fixed actually be faster?

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Erik Sandblom
my site is EriksRailNews.com



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