When a floating element has an opacity of less than one and when hovered it has an opacity of one, Safari (all webkit browsers except the latest Webkit builds) freaks out. The only solution so far seems to be to set the hover opacity to .99
Test page Workaround is included
Reported by: Vasilis.
Safari | Reported on 19 March 2007.
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2 Posted by Shane on 13 July 2007 | Permalink
I have Safari 3.0.2 beta on Mac, and it's still flickering. (The fix still works, however.)
1 Posted by Brandy on 14 June 2007 | Permalink
There is no more flicker in Safari 3 Beta (I'm testing on a Mac)