background-image flicker caching bug in Internet Explorer

Posted by Dennis on Nov 27, 2006 in Uncategorized • 3 comments

I was working on a very frustrating issue that occurs in IE when the caching settings are set to “every visit to the page”. On slower servers, the background images were reloaded on a mouseover. While reloading the images dissappeared. One simple line of JavaScript will solve this issue:

document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true);

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  1. Dan on Jan 17, 2008, 5:03 pm:

    This doesnt work!

  2. Martin on Jun 11, 2009, 9:48 am:

    This DOES work in IE8, not so much in IE7.

  3. Zachary Evans on Apr 28, 2010, 7:42 pm:

    Internet Explorer 8 is very good because it is as stable as Opera. I hate the previous versions of IE like IE6 because it hangs frequently. `

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