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Maybe there's something wrong with my setup, but their 2nd example flashed on/off very quickly about 15 times, really quite a disturbing bug. Anyone else get that?

edit: others who confirm are using chrome, I'm using chrome on mac so it looks like latest chrome on all platforms are affected.

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I had a look at the problem and it seems to be related to the page transition animations (the amount of flicker seems corresponds to the animation steps.) I've created a ticket for this issue: https://github.com/Treesaver/treesaver/issues/issue/148

We'll fix it, thanks for reporting it.

No issues in FF 3.6.13 on Win7, or in IE 9.0.7930.16406 (beta).

In Chome 8.0.552.237 (also Win7) I got nothing on loading, but it did do the flashing thing five times on page three. Haven't been able to replicate it since on any page, though.

Confirmed, Chrome on Windows 7.

Confirmed, Chrome 9.0.597.84 on Ubuntu 10.04.

I didn't notice any unusual flickering in Chrome 10 on Ubuntu. Maybe it's been fixed in the 14 hours since you first saw the problem?

Also, re: 9ec4c12949a4f3 (since I can't reply directly): I prefer continuously flowing text to paginated layouts. One of the things I like about the web is that I can choose the size of the chunks I read, rather than having a page layout defined for me. However, I do agree that an HTML-based paginated layout would be preferable to PDF for many things.

Looks like it's an issue on all Chrome installations Confirmed, Chrome (Ubuntu 9.10)

Chrome 10 (dev channel) on Mac, no problems here.

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