I discovered an odd thing yesterday at a meeting. I was showing a client an site I designed which has a horizontal gradient in the header.
In the metro IE the gradient had vertical lines in and was effectively in several large blocks of colour (a bit like if someone had converted it to 8 bit colour but without dithering), see below. Also the John Owen Centre logo (far right below the menu) doesn't show the circles that are clearly visible in the desktop view.
Yet on the desktop version of IE the gradient displayed perfectly. John Owen Centre logo clearly displayed.
Has anyone else had this experience?
I'm sure you could say that I shouldn't use a gradient etc... but that doesn't get away from the display inconsistency.
Very frustrating because showing sites in the full screen Metro IE is far nicer than the desktop version (even in full screen mode you get a horrible scrollbar at the side).
(I've checked on my desktop PC and it displays correctly in both Metro and Desktop IEs so it would seem to be specifically a Surface thing.)
In the metro IE the gradient had vertical lines in and was effectively in several large blocks of colour (a bit like if someone had converted it to 8 bit colour but without dithering), see below. Also the John Owen Centre logo (far right below the menu) doesn't show the circles that are clearly visible in the desktop view.
Yet on the desktop version of IE the gradient displayed perfectly. John Owen Centre logo clearly displayed.
Has anyone else had this experience?
I'm sure you could say that I shouldn't use a gradient etc... but that doesn't get away from the display inconsistency.
Very frustrating because showing sites in the full screen Metro IE is far nicer than the desktop version (even in full screen mode you get a horrible scrollbar at the side).
(I've checked on my desktop PC and it displays correctly in both Metro and Desktop IEs so it would seem to be specifically a Surface thing.)