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ie+jquery+fadeIn = crappy fonts

signal — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:22:37 -0800

Useing fadeIn() in jQuery, fonts looks crappy in IE7. I'm using jQuery's fadeIn() (and Out) on a div. Works like a charm, however the fonts in the div look like crap in IE7. Apparently IE turns off Cleartype when you fade stuff.
If I use show() and hide(), the fonts look OK, but that's not what I'm going for. Any known workaround for this?

The code:

$('#header').hover(function () {$('#menu2').fadeIn('fast');},

						function () {$('#menu2').fadeOut('fast');}

						);

Name this Firefix bug

twine42 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:22:38 -0800

Can anyone think of a reason for this strange firefox bug? The following is happening on several of my client's Firefox machines. Unfortunately they're in a different country and I can't get access to the machines to play with them myself, nor can I replicate the problem...

I've got a table that renders like this on every browser from lynx upwards:

[row a1    ][row b1     ][row c1         ]

[nextrow b1][nextrow b2 ][nextrow c2     ]

[oddrow a3 ][longcell b3][verylongcell c3]

but on these two machines it renders as:

[row a1][row b1][row c1]

[nextrow b1][nextrow b2][nextrow c2]

[oddrow a3][longcell b3][verylongcell c3]

The rows have style picked up from the TR tag but the columns don't line up and the width of the table varies from row to row. I've never seen a table break like this before.

My suspicion is that somewhere there's a firefox plugin eating the rendering process but I've got no idea how to attack the problem. Any suggestions?

I am an Audio/Video/Graphics designer looking for the proper machine for multi-media production. Please help me find the right components I need. ANYTHING BUT DELL!

bostonhill — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:39:45 -0800

I am an Audio/Video/Graphics designer looking for the proper machine for multi-media production. Please help me find the right components I need. ANYTHING BUT DELL please! My second Dell machine recently crapped out on me (XPS 600) so needless to say I'd like to battle Michael Dell till death but I'll spare you with my hatred for anything Dell related.

These are my primary tools I use on daily basis for various productions:

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Audition
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Lightroom
Propellerheads Reason 4.0

As you can see, I spend a lot of time rendering various footage material from my clients along with Premiere and After Effects along with audio creation which requires a high-quality audio card intended for musicians.

I don't know much about customizing machines and which brand to trust but I do know that I need at least 4 gigs of memory, a fast processor and a high quality audio card for music production. (I also know that I have to get Vista whether I want to or not, and since most programs I use only support 32-bit, I can't really go for a 64 bit Vista)

Given the programs I listed and my desire for fast rendering and high quality audio production, which audio cards/processors would you recommend?

I am leaning toward HP m9200t series

Much thanks in advance to all!

How to render image like in google picasaweb?

tvjoshi — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:08:03 -0800

How to render image like in google picasaweb?: I'm developing a web page. If I use img tag to put image in the web page, while loading the page, image loads very slowly (especially large images). Also the upper part of image is loaded first and then the lower part, as page is downloaded from server. But in applications like google picasa, a very low quality version is rendered first, so that you see the whole image at once (even though its blurred), slowly as the page is downloaded, image becomes sharper. How can I implement this functionality in my web page? Can someone please point me to helpful resources regarding this?

What is the best platform for rendering on OS X?

serial_consign — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:21:16 -0800

What are the best options for digital rendering in OS X? I'm jumping back into the world of rendering after a year hiatus. The studio I'm working at currently models in sketchup.. and my default strategy is to export out of sketchup, and import it into rhino and render with vray. However, I am running Rhino on an emulator and performance is not optimal. Furthermore, I'm wondering about the distinction between the way sketchup models and rhino.. will exporting sketchup into Rhino cause me grief.

So.. metacrowd: What are the best photorealistic rendering options that run native in OS X?

How to make a picture from a CAD drawing?

everichon — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:24:03 -0800

A non-technical friend has some CAD drawings of a widget he's making. He wants to make pretty pictures (renderings?) of the widget, with a background, texture, that kind of thing. Is there some kind of extremely friendly software (app or plugin) to do this, or is it something best outsourced to a 3D wonk? Disclaimer: I know nothing about 3D, CAD, rendering, or any of that jazz.

Please help me GLOBALLY DISABLE font smoothing (anti-aliasing) in Tiger

allterrainbrain — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:13:48 -0800

Please help me GLOBALLY DISABLE font smoothing (anti-aliasing) in Tiger. I did it almost-completely in Panther, but the Panther solution needs another step in Tiger. Yes, I'm positive I don't want font smoothing. :)

So here are the two commands I found to use in Panther. Both need to be done as root.
defaults write -g AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 128
defaults write CoreGraphics CGFontDisableAntialiasing YES

(I assume 128 could be any number and it's just "something bigger than the biggest font size you expect to ever use.")

In Tiger (on Intel), using these doesn't work to disable anti-aliasing in the menu text across the top of the screen.

My Panther machine (which I still have, if you want me to report anything about it) is definitely using non-anti-aliased Lucida Grande on all the top menus -- whether in Finder or in any app. HOWEVER, I never got the other kinds of system text (dialog boxes, Preference panels, etc.) to stop using anti-aliasing. So the font rendering in the menus is somehow different from the rendering in other kinds of "system" text.

Unfortunately I didn't keep a record of everything I did in Panther, and it's been a few years now -- I only remember it as a long, roundabout process of googling & trying different solutions. So it's likely that something else I did in addition to these two commands made the top menus stop using anti-aliasing. So what could that extra something have been??

(TinkerTool and its siblings aren't the answer, since their option for disabling font smoothing seems to be just a graphical frontend for the AppleAntialiasingThreshold command above. But of course I'd hugely appreciate any tip about a tweaking app I missed that goes further -- that got rid of anti-aliasing in your top menus, not just inside your apps, in Tiger.)

more q's on software rendering

xteraco — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:33:49 -0800

simple question... which has faster SOFTWARE rendering capabilities, allegro or sdl.... or if you know of something faster than the 2, do tell

Fiat Lux!

RavinDave — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:04:34 -0800

Looking for a crash course in "lighting" as it applies to photography. I'm not interested in photography per se, but the fundamentals of "lighting" (placement, intensity, use of colored lights, indirect lighting, use of reflectors, etc.). These are emulated in several of the 3D rendering programs I use and it's about time to progress from simple McCandless theory or just slapping a bright spot in a render and hoping for the best.

Vesa 2.0, good for 3d lib?

xteraco — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:05:11 -0800

I'm looking for information on Vesa 2.0, as far as usage in assembly (fasm) and c++ (gcc) goes. The reason i'm looking for this is because i'm interested in making a software rendered realtime 3d lib, so if you have any info on that (software libs) as well, it would be most helpful.

Need links to free 3d models for architecture

Dean Keaton — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 13:37:23 -0800

I am in need of 3D models to use in architecture renderings. Since I am a starving student, free is the only price I can pay! I have been to 3dlinks.com and 3dcafe.com but their selection is.... crap. Thanks for the help.

Question about CSS = xml

mdpc98 — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:39:36 -0800

i'd like to use css+xml to render pdf on a server for *free*... any help? [mi] i've looked into yeslogic prince and it sounds like the bee's knees, but their commercial server license is $2000 (?!?). jumping into xsl-fo is a bit more than i want to bite off at the moment; css is not a prob. any help would be greatly appreciated.

an alternative might be to use css to mold printing from a html file, but i'd like to be able to offer pdf to clients so that i know it will print correctly (whereas highly styled html might get eaten by ie).

How do you do pen and ink illustrations?

Shane — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:56:56 -0800

Pen-n-ink illustration filter:
I've recently taken a renewed interest in "embellishing" or "rendering" in pen and ink. This has led me to this picture of a fiddling cat, which is naggingly familiar to myself and also to my Mom, although neither of us can remember the artist or source. Also, I came across this illustration from an Aesop's Fable, but I do not know the artist either (evidently, though, Aesop has a long and old tradition of finely illustrated editions.) Can anyone help me out?

And while we're at it, do we have any pen-n-ink or comics style artists out there? What good books or practice-methods have helped you? (I've had this great book since I was a child but am only now making good use of it.) Do you use traditional quills, or have you transitioned to modern markers and such? Or a Wacom tablet?
Really, I'd love any info from anyone who creates art or plays with the techniques.

Top image bar on website broken in IE6 and FF; text is obscured. How to fix this?

ralawrence — Thu, 13 May 2004 06:23:39 -0800

I've knocked up a website which is modifed from some of the templates from the layout reservoir. However the top bar which contains the image is causing problems under some browsers (IE6 and Firefox being two) because the height doesn't match the image height which means that the text is obscured. Any suggestions? One thing I forgot to mention, is that the css can be found here to save you digging through the code.