• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Website Flickers - Help

Tony Laubach

Tony Laubach

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Hey gang,

I am writing code for my new website and have stumbled across an issue that seems to be an IE-only problem.

I have a javascripted slideshow link on the page, and when in view, the entire webpage flickers every few seconds. When you scroll away and the slideshow is out of view, the flickering stops.

I have searched various forums and databases, but cannot seem to isolate the issue. I was hoping to hear from a few of you web programming geeks (a loving term, FYI) to see if you had some input or a magic piece of code which would prevent that from happening!

Thanks!
 
Semantics can certainly change the outcome of a search for solutions.

I found (I think) a solution to the problem!

First, I identified the wrong culprit; it was not the slideshow! It was a flash RSS feed which required being activated. The annoying "click to activate to use this control" which pops up when a user mouses-over a embedded object seems to be the trigger to stopping this flickering of the page.

I found a couple places where this can be changed and figure I'd toss them out there in case someone later on finds this problem..

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkkgT6TlHMmEBTL5XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE4ZTEzMXRqBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkA0NTMDFfODYEbANXUzE-/SIG=12a658cm9/EXP=1195063955/**http%3a//msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537508.aspx

http://www.duckware.com/eolas/index.html

My guess is that the bigger cause is likely the multitude of objects I have towards the top of the screen. The flickering stopped when the objects were removed from site by scrolling down.

I'm going to try and impliment the code to see if the auto-activation of the controls eliminates the problem entirely!

The below link states that updates coming in the next few months will put an end to this issue which stemmed from a legal disagreement. An interesting side note for those who care.

http://windows.about.com/b/2007/11/10/goodbye-click-to-activate.htm
 
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