In case anyone was wondering why, here's the solution from Mike Alsup.
Hope it helps anyone else with the issue.
"Hi Shane,
There are two cleartype options in Cycle, and unfortunately one of
them is not documented (yet).
The general purpose of the cleartype logic in Cycle is to workaround a
rendering issue in IE when cleartype is enabled on the system. When a
Windows machine has cleartype enabled, IE6/7 render text aliased when
there is an opacity filter applied to an element. In IE6, the effects
of this can be greatly minimized if the element in question has an
explicit background color.
When Cycle's 'cleartype' option is true the plugin will attempt to set
a background color on all of the slides to provided better
antialiasing support on IE6. To determine the best bg color, the
plugin walks up the parent hierarchy until it finds a parent with a
non-transparent background color. If it doesn't find one then it uses
white. In addition, when the cleartype option is true the plugin will
always try to remove the opacity filter after the transition
completes, this fixes the aliased text on IE7.
Since Cycle is used in many, many different environments I realized
that there are some cases in which setting a specific background color
is not desirable. A long time ago I added an option called
'cleartypeNoBg'. When this option is true Cycle will *not* set a
background color on the slide elements (but it will still remove the
opacity filter after each slide transition).
In Internet Explorer the default value of Cycle's 'cleartype' option
is true in recent versions of the plugin.
So to use the undocumented option you would do this:
$('#slideshow').cycle({
cleartypeNoBg: true
});
Hope this helps with the problem you're having.
Mike"
On Apr 22, 6:00 pm, Shane Riley <shanerileydoti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using Mike Alsup's Cycle plugin on a large number of
> projects, and one of the most recent ones is giving me trouble in IE.
> In this example, the slide container seems to have a background color
> applied to it, and there is neither a background property added to it
> nor is there any background property in the CSS for the slide element
> or its children. I finally decided to recreate the effect from scratch
> to make sure it wasn't some strange IE bug or the markup, and the from-
> scratch version works no problem. Here are the two examples, both are
> in the "past lectures" module:
>
> http://shaneriley.info/fldc/(with Cycle
> plugin)http://shaneriley.info/fldc/index_custom.html
>
> Anyone have any idea why this is happening? I haven't seen this happen
> before, however I may be using a more recent version than usual.
