Static Layer

When the static layer is applied to an item, it looks a little ‘jumpy’ when you scroll down the page. Is there a smoother method available does anyone know?

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On 27 May 2008, 2:32 pm, BigG wrote:

When the static layer is applied to an item, it looks a little ‘jumpy’
when you scroll down the page. Is there a smoother method available
does anyone know?

If you can get your visitors to use a proper browser, then you can simply set position:fixed on the element in the Inspector. But IE < 7 doesn’t recognize this much at all. And I think 7 has some issues with it as well. Maybe IE8 gets it right, but somehow I doubt it.

Otherwise, if you need to maintain the illusion (for your visitors) that IE is a standard Web browser, you have to put up with the JavaScript trick that keeps the image positioned a certain distance from the top of the viewport. And that will be jumpy in most browsers.

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Thanks Walter - I suspected as much with IE.

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On 27 May 2008, at 17:01, waltd wrote:

On 27 May 2008, 2:32 pm, BigG wrote:

When the static layer is applied to an item, it looks a little ‘jumpy’

when you scroll down the page. Is there a smoother method available

does anyone know?

If you can get your visitors to use a proper browser, then you can simply set position:fixed on the element in the Inspector. But IE < 7 doesn’t recognize this much at all. And I think 7 has some issues with it as well. Maybe IE8 gets it right, but somehow I doubt it.

Otherwise, if you need to maintain the illusion (for your visitors) that IE is a standard Web browser, you have to put up with the JavaScript trick that keeps the image positioned a certain distance from the top of the viewport. And that will be jumpy in most browsers.

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There are hacks and emulation techniques to get around this in IE6
and below, albeit with tradeoffs in one respect or another. If you
want to get knee-deep in it try searching Google for “IE position
fixed”, you’ll find a lot to keep you busy. Here’s one of many
examples, http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/fixedPosition.html.

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That’s interesting, Todd. The author of the article you linked says IE7 respects position:fixed only if the DTD is set to strict.

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Todd wrote:

There are hacks and emulation techniques to get around this in IE6
and below, albeit with tradeoffs in one respect or another. If you
want to get knee-deep in it try searching Google for “IE position
fixed”, you’ll find a lot to keep you busy. Here’s one of many
examples, <http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/fixedPosition.html>.


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Some of the IE position: fixed solutions I’ve experimented with have included [to me] interesting aspects and this is one of them.

Todd

On May 27, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:

That’s interesting, Todd. The author of the article you linked says IE7 respects position:fixed only if the DTD is set to strict.

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Todd wrote:

There are hacks and emulation techniques to get around this in IE6
and below, albeit with tradeoffs in one respect or another. If you
want to get knee-deep in it try searching Google for “IE position
fixed”, you’ll find a lot to keep you busy. Here’s one of many
examples, <http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/fixedPosition.html>.