When ClearType is on and you have a fading effect in your slide show, you see bold characters defected in IE6 and IE7. I couldn't find a better fix but putting a background color to the main teaser area has made it look better. I am basing on http://jszen.blogspot.com/2005/04/ie-bold-text-opacity-problem.html. Hope it'll be useful.

.views_slideshow_main {
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
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#5 cleartype-344046-1.patch7.18 KBredndahead
#3 views_slideshow-344046.patch588 bytesjrglasgow

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El Bandito commented

Cheers. Works for me.

Dave

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aaronchristian commented

Awesome!

Also worked for me.

Optionally, if the style isn't being picked up because you have another background color on your view, adding !important to the css style should override the current one.

.views_slideshow_main {
background-color: #FFFFFF !important;
}
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jrglasgow commented
Status: Needs work » Needs review
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new views_slideshow-344046.patch588 bytes

this worked for me - I have created a patch that will solve the problem in the future

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redndahead commented
Title: Little hack for IE character problem with bold text when fading is on » Add Cleartype options in the settings page.
Version: 5.x-1.0-beta1 » 6.x-2.x-dev
Status: Needs review » Needs work

This may be better handled using a use cleartype option from cycle. I am planning on adding this as I need it for my site.

Options are ClearType and ClearTypeBG

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redndahead commented
Status: Needs work » Needs review
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new cleartype-344046-1.patch7.18 KB

Here is a patch for the cleartype fix.

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redndahead commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

Committed patch in #5

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

It worked for me! Thank you!