On this test page: http:// www.onebagoneearth.com/ Products-test , where it says "oboe love series", "oboe kind series", etc, when you hover over that text (which is a background-image) in IE7 and IE8(at least on Vista, and also with IETester), the image blurs (not just by being opaque though...that would be the normal hover effect). Why is that?
The same thing doesn't happen on this page with similar CSS: http:// www.onebagoneearth.com /Products . If it's the zoom:1 bit of CSS, I don't understand why it would do that on one page and not the other.
I see what you mean, but on my computer it doesn't blur, it gets a noisy outline of dark gray pixels instead.
It's because you are using a PNG image with an alpha channel, and are applying a filter to it. Internet Explorer doesn't handle this correctly and draws the semi transparent pixels against a solid background instead of the actual background.
When this happens and how it appears exactly may vary from computer to computer, and even on the same computer in different situations. That's why some people experience it and some don't.
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On Windows, and to a certain degree also on Mac OS, with different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari), our menu bar has rather pixelated/blurry font-rendering. This is on an ASP.NET Core 2.1 site that uses Bootstrap 4.1.3 but it's easy enough to reproduce with just simple HTML: https://jsfiddle.net/2tgc9r84/
<html>
<body style="background-color:#e72c87;">
<p style="font-size:20pt;">
This is some text that looks terrible.
</p>
</body>
</html>
Interestingly, the same font renders just fine in other areas of the site. I have noticed this on a 4K monitor that has 150% scaling activated but the issue also shows up with 100%. I have also tried this with different fonts, so apparently it's not an issue with the font, either.
Originally I thought this was an issue with transparency or transformations but finally, I tried simply changing the background color - and it turns out this blurriness is very obvious with red and dark blue (and of course, combinations of those, like magenta), and pretty much invisible with most other colors. Also, by changing the main background color, I can reproduce the issue for the other areas.
You can directly have a look at the site where this occurs here: https://beat-the-rhythm-vr.com/Home/Social (the navigation with the blurry text shows up after accepting the cookies).
Here's an image that shows the effect with different backgrounds, and also rendered on Mac OS (the Mac OS screenshots appear smaller in the image):
As far as I can tell, this does not happen at all on iOS. On the Mac, I don't quite see the issue on the screen but it does become obvious when making a screenshot. This could, however, also be an artifact due to scaling on the screenshot.
This is what it looks like on iOS (I get the same blurriness on Windows when making the Window small enough to get the same layout as on mobile, so that's also not the issue causing this / fixing this):
The obvious question: Is there any way to fix this, and if so, how?
EDIT: This is in addition to the comment on Porter's answer (I can't add screenshots in comments, so I'm posting this here):
EDIT 2: While this article is about a slightly different issue, my guess is that what I'm seeing is really just a limitation of ClearType that is related to what the article outlines: Color-aware ClearType requires access to fixed background pixels, which is a problem if you don't know what the background pixels are, or if they aren't fixed
ClearType apparently doesn't work when the background color isn't known, and from what I'm seeing, it seems to be designed primarily for black text on white backgrounds, also works well with light colors on dark backgrounds but not really so much for red/blue/magenta backgrounds (and any font-color).
I am unable to reproduce this on a 1080p or 4K display, with either mobile or web view on Firefox and Chrome. Fonts do tend to blend with the background color, so not every pixel of the font is going to be the same color; It'll blend on the edges. The smaller the font, the less pixels it has to work with for blending. If you use a larger font, does the same problem occur?
I have converted a badge/image from PNG to SVG in order to be able to re-use the asset in various sizes etc.
The problem is that depending on the specific webpage i'm embedding the SVG on, it either looks super crisp (as intended) or looks bad with some sort of anti-aliasing gone horribly wrong.
Even on the pages where the SVG looks crisp after load, I only have to scroll the page a bit until it looks horrible as well.
Please look at the screenshots below to see the exact difference on the BADGE (SVG):
It seems the browser only messes with the SVG right where the SVG meets the image behind it. The SVG is only slightly transparent in the gray center, so that should not be the cause of it.
I have tested in Chrome, Edge, Safari which all do the same thing.
Does anybody know what might be the cause of this?
I found a fix to what clearly seems to be a somehow undiscovered big bug in all modern browsers in regards to handling SVG through CSS as a background on an element overlapping another element with background/image.
The fix for my case was simply adding a background-color to the element. Since the element is completely round I can simply make a border-radius as well, so the background will never appear.
If the element however was not a complete round circle, this would not be a workable fix.
I have a website I have just built. Everything looks reasonable in Mac browsers, but in windows browsers such as IE there seems to be some rendering problems in terms of very thin sketchy white lines in between where the main header image butts joins the surrounding background image, and also between the background image and the surrounding background colour. The images were created in photoshop. I'm probably not explaining it very well, but please take a look at the site. The link is below. Thankyou
http://www.eve-tattoo.com/index.htm
These are img artifacts. Here's the fixed jpg: http://i.imgur.com/O6rtiZ2.jpg
I have an image that is sitting on top of a background. In Firefox and Chrome it looks fine as per below:
But in Internet Explorer (any version), it looks like the image background is a different shade than the background (I have put a red box to highlight where the image ends and the background begins, but it's pretty obvious).
How could it be that, given the same image and the same HTML background color, one browser looks fine but in Internet Explorer it looks like the colors are off as the background color of the image is a shade lighter than the HTML background?
The full website is here if that helps.
I think you have different image formats, and Internet Explorer got some image rendering problems. Try to put both of the images background and logo (back-page1.png, logo5.gif) in the same format either GIF or PNG (I prefer PNG) and it should do the trick!
Good luck :)
UPDATE:
So what is this render issue?
As tenfour said in comment, "assuming that the RGB color is really the same on both images, the underlying problem is that Photoshop saves gamma information in the PNG which causes Internet Explorer to render a different color than desired".
I think you need to remove the gamma information in the PNG. See http://morris-photographics.com/photoshop/articles/png-gamma.html for an explanation of this problem. I use http://www.choppng.com/ to remove this section from the PNG.
I have a website where the background has a light gradient (light gray from top to white on the bottom). When I place an image with a transparent background on the website, the background of the image picks the top color of the gradient. So instead of the image's background appearing to be a gradient as well and blending in with the site, the image's background color is just light gray.
I'm not sure if this is the way it's suppose to be (due to the way transparency works on websites). But I was wondering if anyone could provide a workaround
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It depends. First of all, your website will be rendered differently on different browsers, and that's of vital importance to you, because unless you test it on different browsers, you can't be sure what some users will see.
If you've seen a partially transparent PNG that instead of transparency shows a grey background, chances are you're using Internet Explorer 6, a very old browser that you really shouldn't use. It's the one with the blue E, that E stands for Evil. Run.
On a more serious note, having a link to check would help, or a screenshot, because it's hard to tell just by guessing. PNGs should render fine against any background.