How to keep IE iframe from flashing white?

April 3, 2006 1:42 PM

Is there a way to keep IE from flashing to white when navigating within an iFrame/frame?
posted by Edible Energy to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

Are you sure you need to load a sequence of pages? Could the interactivity be handled via AJAXy JavaScript within the same page to avoid any visual glitches?
posted by malevolent at 2:38 PM on April 3, 2006

I haven't done a mockup but do those wicked IE transition effects do it?
posted by holloway at 2:44 PM on April 3, 2006

ps. I recommend starwipe if it's availalble.
posted by holloway at 2:44 PM on April 3, 2006

Response by poster: The problem is, I have a page completely in flash, and there's an html forum.
My boss wants the flash to stay loaded while you're in the forum, and to do it sans popups.
So right now I have it that when you click "forum" it resizes the embed and object to like 30px high, and unhides the forum iframe which starts as display:none.
It looks fine, but the friggin white flash on IE when you navigate in the forum looks awful.
posted by Edible Energy at 2:51 PM on April 3, 2006

As far as I know, and I've dealt with crud like this for 7 years, there's no way to get rid of it. It's the default "nothing" state in IE.

If Mozilla were to display a flicker, it would be grey, as Moz's default BG color is grey. (or at least it used to be)
posted by o2b at 3:20 PM on April 3, 2006

What about making sure your <embed> tag has the attribute bgcolor="#000000" and the <object> tag has a <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /> or whatever the background color of your site is?
posted by micradigitalis at 3:21 PM on April 3, 2006

This might be related to the infamous Flash of Unstyled Content. (Although I found some vague search hits that suggest it's something different.)
posted by mbrubeck at 5:20 PM on April 3, 2006