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Title: [wedge site] background image does not show in Firefox
Post by: colby67 on January 13th, 2013, 02:14 PM

I am running Pale Moon, a special version of Firefox, and the background images of menus and a few otter places does not show. looking through the generated css file, it might be this area below that cause trouble?

Working fine in Chrome and opera so I assume its a firefox-only error, since a "firefox" css file is loaded.

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url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhGQADALMAAISEhP///waelQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAZAAMAAAQPUEhAq71W6s27n1goAkIEADs=)

Title: Re: [wedge site] background image does not show in Firefox
Post by: Aaron on January 13th, 2013, 08:53 PM

I'm using Firefox 18 on OS X and it looks fine to me...? The base64 embedding is intentional, afaik.

Title: Re: [wedge site] background image does not show in Firefox
Post by: Arantor on January 13th, 2013, 08:55 PM

Yes, base64 encoding of images inline into the CSS is intentional, one of the fun goodies provided by the CSS preprocessor (you just reference $images/the_image.gif or whatever, and it embeds directly)

Why it's not showing in your browser is curious.

Title: Re: [wedge site] background image does not show in Firefox
Post by: colby67 on January 14th, 2013, 11:54 AM

It might not be that..but when i looked at the source those 3-4 /// made the source jump a line - indicating it might be interpreted as escaped charachters?

Anyway, adding embedded images in a stylesheet is a no-no for me as a designer lol, its a chore to update and more a programmers solution. Which in itself is fine, but not something I would recommend. Using a sprite for this, or even CSS3 gradient seems more versatile to me.

Title: Re: [wedge site] background image does not show in Firefox
Post by: Nao on January 14th, 2013, 02:33 PM

Looked into this...
Latest Pale Moon is v15.
Wedge recently got rid of pre-16 support, which is when prefixes were dropped for gradients.
Hence, gradients don't show. :(

Fixed by downgrading requirement to v15.

Posted: January 14th, 2013, 02:31 PM

"The next major version of Pale Moon will be v19, to not fall behind too much in both graphics rendering engine and web standards support, even if this does not include h.264 video (which is planned for Firefox 20)."

(from website, this week.)

I'll update requirements when they do.

Title: Re: [wedge site] background image does not show in Firefox
Post by: colby67 on January 14th, 2013, 06:28 PM

Ah, so that was it. :) Thanks Nao.

I really like Pale Moon, while Chrome and Opera also sits here, I always return to it because of the web developer tools with it.

Title: Re: [wedge site] background image does not show in Firefox
Post by: Nao on January 14th, 2013, 07:06 PM

I tend to use Chrome, Firefox and Opera indifferently these days... Heck, I've even been known to use IE10 for a few days recently... :whistle:
Just whatever doesn't crash on me when I use 100+ tabs, overall. Firefox is best at this game these days (used to be Opera 11.xx), but it still freezes at startup sometimes. Like these days. At least my Pale Moon session only had a couple dozen tabs ;)

Oh BTW, image embedding = done automatically by Wedge.. You don't have anything to do. If you do change one of the image files, though, you'll have to tell Wedge by either emptying the CSS cache, or just reuploading skin/common.css or whatever (it'll usually have the same effect as emptying the cache.)