IE hates 1px X 1px transparent backgrounds
by Sue
To quote my client, this totally FAILS and should be covered in the base browser standards. Like fer sure. Hella. California/XboxLive slang. FTL. Weaksauce. etc etc… I don’t know if he uses those last ones, but he seems like he would. He seems like the kinda guy who corpse camps and teabags in halo.
Did you know IE hates 1px X 1px repeating transparent background images? Well it do. Pain in my ass. You can make it 1px X 2px, or 1px X 3px and watch a significant performance increase, but don’t you dare make it 1X1 or you will get a bizarre gradient effect in your background expanding out from the top corner.
Check these out in IE
1 x 1
1 x 2
Now that I’m home on a computer that functions, opposed to my work computer which frankly is a piece of shit, I noticed this issue is gone in IE8. I’ll double check IE7 native tomorrow on the ol’ crapbook.