If you are reading this, it's probably because you got redirected here when you clicked on "This functionality has been removed from Safari because Apple developers are elitists.". Either that, or you searched for something like "the" - nice one. Either way, I am here to tell you that right now, I think Safari sucks big time.
Why can't I style form elements? It's that simple. I want my submit button to look a certain way. I don't care that you care about usability. Not EVERY site needs to care. Yes, ok, Amazon should care. Great - I don't.
No matter what I do, unless I want to embed a specific image on the page in lieu of the regular submit button, I can't style it -- it will always be that hideous blue aqua theme. OK News Flash -- nothing on my site is aqua blue. I am a designer. I want shit to look a certain way, and that way is NOT aqua blue.
I need to quote a web developer from this article that basically covers the issue at hand: "and who's going to make the Aqua buttons look better anyway". Is this guy for real? Apparently, according to the "Man In Blue", the Aqua submit button is the perfect button for every occasion. How nice for you both -- and how convenient your site is all blue.
Anyhow, so I am disabling all form objects on my site in Safari in protest. I mean, I have to say, the IE team are a bunch of retards, but at least there are HACKS available to fix their stupidity. Safari developers aren't stupid -- they are elitists -- and I am afraid there is only room for one design elitist on THIS website.
Hey Adobe (Macromedia) lazy-asses. Is it really that hard? You take away the ability to smooth dynamically loaded images in at run-time by globally setting _quality = "BEST"; and then don't give us a replacement feature. Here's a nickel's worth of free advice: if you actually want developers to use your software as the 99 percent good software development platform you tout it as, allow them to do their job.
So, I've been forced to HACK loadMovie and your precious MovieClipLoader class to allow dynamically loaded graphics to be smoothed. Why you ask? When there are solutions that exist that aren't hacks? And what ever happened to the much awaited flash 9 MovieClip.forceSmoothing?
Well, for those of you who don't want to wait for flash 9, or for those of you who, say use SlideShowPro (or any other component that uses images without the loadBitmapSmoothed workaround), or for those of you who assume it should work globally if that is what you choose to do, i have the solution for you. So, without further ado, i present to you the Hypergeneric Flash 8 Run-time Smoothing Hack!