Hi,
I found the reason why the screen flickers in freedos.org (on my PC):
I'm using Firefox 89 on Linux Mint with Dark theme. The screen flickers because
Firefox is using the dark system's theme as well.
I switched to Bright theme on Linux Mint, restarted Firefox, and the problem
disappeared.
I guess that the Firefox developers need to address this problem with Dark
system themes - not the FreeDOS developers.
Thank you,
shian
February 24, 2022 12:25:01 AM CET Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote:On Sun,
Feb 20, 2022 at 12:54 PM shian via Freedos-devel
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> "What do you mean "the screen flickers"? Do you mean you get a "flash"
> of unstyled content, or something else?"
>
> Looks like it happens because the browser renders overlapping layers, first
in dark color
> and then in bright color, (maybe because width or height are not declared
somewhere,
> or because of rendering priorities, etc...)
>
> This flickering exists also in www.freedos.org, exactly the same.
> If you switch between the top menu items quickly then the screen is
flickering. (on my i3 PC).
> It's not so bad and it doesn't happen each time, but it looks like some
conflict
> in the css file that can be solved somehow.
>
Ok, thanks for mentioning that. I can write pages in HTML, but I don't
consider myself an expert in web page design. I think there are a few
possible solutions for this, such as adding a bit of javascript that
forces the browser to finish loading everything before displaying it.
That could fix the "flash" you mentioned.
I'll look into some options. If I can add that to the www.freedos.org
website, I will. Otherwise I'll test some things on the
test.freedos.org after usability testing is done, and apply the fix
after that.
Jim
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