Sent by Erik Harris on 2 October 2008 22:10
On 10/1/2008 9:47 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
>> I'd recommend against this. I haven't tested it on recent browsers,
>> but
>> when I tried this solution in 2004, it crashed Gecko-based browsers
>> hard. They would max out the CPU and then crash. It affected all
> I've used that technique for years (since Gecko 1.0 !, well before
> Firefox 1.0 was released) without ever noticing a crash or hang like
> that. And recent Gecko versions certainly don't suffer from this.
> Occasionally the background-image attached to the <html> element would
> not display at all, but that is a different issue.
That's strange. In my case, both the HTML and BODY images displayed,
but they caused serious problems. In my case, they were small pictures
vertically repeated down the left and right sides of the screen (as they
are now with the BODY and a DIV element on my gungfu club homepage). A
number of people in alt.html verified that it crashed their systems as
well, so it was something about the CSS on the page, and not unique to
my setup.
That issue was actually what prompted me to join this discussion forum.
Judging from the message date and the Firefox release history, this
was Gecko 1.6, and Firefox 0.8 that had the problem. I kept an
alternate CSS file around and verified that a couple later versions had
the same problem, but I stopped checking shortly after that.
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