There's a little glitch I'm finding with the Simple Gallery, wondering if there are any suggestions to rectify it...

Please look at this page:

www.xero-competition.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=35

Open the first image "xero_sr3_1.png.... in the triangular airbox behind the seats of the car is a solitary white pixel which is not there in the actual image.... please check the actual image...

www.xero-competition.com/cms/images/stories/sr3_drive/xero_sr3_1.png

this (above) is the same very image displayed by the gallery... as you can see, outside the gallery, no white pixel.

This is a clone of the same page (not linked to the menu so the public don't know it's there) using the same images but in .jpg format. See the number of white pixels in this one....

www.xero-competition.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=33

and likewise. the image viewed outside the gallery script...

www.xero-competition.com/cms/images/stories/radical_gallery/xero_sr3_1.jpg

again, no white pixels! Is this a glitch in the script? I have tried various methods of resampling the original images. The png's in the publicly visible page were resized directly from the original images 2048 x 1536 pixels to 600 x 450 pixels using a little smoothing in the bicubic resampling in PhotoShop CS2. Before that I had tried resampling in stages with both png's and jpg's, each time these images contained several white pixels when displayed in the gallery.

Thanks for that... but can't it be fixed so it works with earlier versions of IE? Because there will be people who won't upgrade for quite some time.

I also got the links in the wrong order in my original post, this is the order they should have been in:

www.xero-competition.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=33

www.xero-competition.com/cms/images/stories/sr3_drive/xero_sr3_1.png

www.xero-competition.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=35
 
www.xero-competition.com/cms/images/stories/radical_gallery/xero_sr3_1.jpg

Just read the text in the original post as is and it will match these links!
:D

PS the emoticons on this forum are displaying a broken images (red x) on my PC!

PS Clean your browser's cache and you'll see the new emoticons ;)

No, didn't work, they're still not showing!  ???

Reboot!

Tested on IE6,7 - Opera 8,9 and Firefox 2.x  ;)

Cleared Temporary Internet Files, Rebooted...

Still not working in IE6 or Firefox latest version, Firefox just displays the related text, e.g. Wink, Huh, Smile etc... IE6 displays a white square with red x and the related text.

Oh, btw, just a minor thing with Simple Image Gallery... in the alt text displayed on mouseover the thumbnails, the bold tags <b></b> are visible either side the image file name.

I have installed IE7 and the white pixel problem is still there! Any ideas?

These are random white pixels generated by IE6, because it's a crappy browser to deal with. It cannot handle "opacity" changes properly and throws such white pixels, which in some cases are visible and in others not. Depends both on the browser and on the computer it's installed on.

But don't despare, at least IE7 is growing rapidly (30% share until now - estimated) and by the end of the year, such headaches are gonna be a thing of the past. Others will come next with IE7, LOL!!  :D

Hmmm, i use IE7 and have the same Problem. Why ist the Problem NOT in the original Lightbox in the Component Pony-Gallery? I think the Problem is in the Slimbox v1.22

Please look for it!

Sincerly Steve

Points taken guys! But as I said, this rendering bug is not visible in the same way from all browsers and computers...

Every single person I know with IE6 and IE7 in various parts of the world are seeing the problem.

Every single person I know with IE6 and IE7 in various parts of the world are seeing the problem.

Exactly.

I registered here for 2 reasons:
- Thank you guys from Joomla Works, you are doing a great job in Elas.
- Share good-enough solution for the white-pixels problem.

First of all, I searched the net for the similar problems. The results are:
- In most cases the original black pixels are shown as white ones. This is exactly my case.
- In some cases the dark pixels, not just #000000, are also shown as white ones.
- The problem is in... let's say how IE implements functions used by mootools. We definately cannot do anything with IE, me personally cannot do anything with mootools.
- People say that the problem is associated with opacity... I guess this is something about transparency. That is IE treats these pixels as transparent and the white pixels we all see is just the color of the background.

So my solution is to make the background of color #000000. I did it by modifying slimbox.js:

Replace line

this.center = new Element('div').setProperty('id', 'lbCenter').setStyles({width: this.options.initialWidth+'px', height: this.options.initialHeight+'px', marginLeft: '-'+(this.options.initialWidth/2)+'px', display: 'none'}).injectInside(document.body);

with modified version:

this.center = new Element('div').setProperty('id', 'lbCenter').setStyles({width: this.options.initialWidth+'px', height: this.options.initialHeight+'px', marginLeft: '-'+(this.options.initialWidth/2)+'px', display: 'none', background: '#000000'}).injectInside(document.body);

The slideshow doesn't look so great anymore but 70% (IE users) users of my site don't need to stare into white pixels any longer. Check how it looks now: maximmoroz.ru/content/view/51/2/1/3/ , the site is in Russisn, just scroll down to the bottom of the page to the gallery.

To maximmoroz,

Thanks for posting that fix, have used it on my site and cleans up the issue nicely.

To Fotis Evangelou,

I look forward to any other thoughts you may have on the issue. Nice if we can get it looking like the original style without the white pixels in IE.

AndyNick