css background-image won't work on Safari 3.0.4

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css background-image won't work on Safari 3.0.4

Hi,

on one of my webpages I included the following code:

<style type="text/css">

</style>

On 10.4.11 with Safari all works fine. Same with Safari 3.0.4 on Windows XP. But on 10.5.1 Safari 3.0.4 tells me that is still loading - sometimes 1 of 2 and sometime 2 of 3 items completed (samepage without a change!!!).

I found different things about this on the web. But all those things aren't correct! Again in firefox on 10.5.1 it works - on Windows XP with Safari 3.0.4 it works - on 10.4.11 all browsers work!

I would be really happy to get an solution!

Message was edited by: grauth

various Macs, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Jan 15, 2008 12:57 PM

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Answer 1

Tom_X

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Jan 15, 2008 3:48 PM in response to grauth

If Leopard can't find the image, try putting the complete url in the background-image.

background-image: url( http://something/medien/DBWEB2HG.jpg);

Good luck,

Tom

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grauth Author

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Jan 16, 2008 2:25 AM in response to Tom_X

Thank You Tom,

but honestly I tried before all versions of the url. And to write the complete url dons't work on Safari 3. The combination Leopard/Safari finds the picture but it won't load. Safari tells me first 1 of 2 completed and keeps on loading. If I refesh the page it says 2 of 3 items completed.

The problem shouldn't be a plugin, since on a new setup up iMac is the same problem.

If anyone want's to have a look: http://www.lokale-bilder.de

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Potroast

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Jan 21, 2008 8:31 AM in response to grauth

I have the same problem with my website. There seems to be a glitch with 10.5. The only thing is that I have multiple background images, but Safari on 10.5 only decides not to load one of them. Safari 3 on 10.4.1 works fine, but Safari 3 on 10.5 issues. I just put my hope that apple fixes this on the next update.

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grauth Author

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Jan 26, 2008 12:39 PM in response to Potroast

Hope this update come soon...

I do a intranet for a publishing company - they say it's an easy job since they have only OS X. How do I tell them, that Safari 2.0 was fine, but 3.0 works not fine. What I got told? "That's not our problem, our standard is Safari and we don't care how you fix it."

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Rachel R

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Jan 26, 2008 1:00 PM in response to grauth

I haven't had problems with CSS specifying background JPEGs on my web sites, as viewed in Safari in Leopard.

You might check if the problem is the JPEG itself. I haven't followed the discussions closely, but there have been a couple of threads on Apple's Discussions recently about certain JPEGs not showing up properly in Leopard. As a test, try substituting a different JPEG - one you've downloaded and can confirm is visible in Safari in Leopard, perhaps?

I'm on my way out the door so haven't done a thorough search, but I think this search in the Leopard forum might pull up some of the threads I was thinking of....

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Jan 26, 2008 1:23 PM in response to grauth

http://www.lokale-bilder.de/medien/DBWEB2HG.jpg
I can't download the image file. It stops at about 48KB's and never completes.

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grauth Author

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Jan 26, 2008 1:36 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

oh yes it stops - but in Safari only 😉

Firefox shows it. Funny thing... Safari 2 shows it too...

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grauth Author

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Jan 26, 2008 2:00 PM in response to Rachel R

now what to say... the image was done on my G4 10.4.11 with photoshop. I reopened it under 10.5.1 with Photoshop and save it again. Now it works...

I tried to replace it before, with smaller pics I never had problems. Just with the bigger ones. But they were all done under 10.4.11.

Thanx for all comments.

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