KHTML redrawing 'bad'

[Jelmer Feenstra]

Hi,

There is some redrawing behaviour with KHTML that's rather disturbing. The 
following is what is taking place :

- Visit a website with a non-default background color
- Scroll a little (doesn't matter how much) down the page
- Now hit F5 (reload), go back in history or click on a link

You can see the view is completely erased with the default background color 
first, after which the page is rendered on it (with a different background 
color). In effect, this results in a completely white view for a short moment 
during browsing - very stressful for the eyes (especially when this 
background turns to black after this white flash).

The strange thing is (that is, to me) that this behaviour is not observed when 
you don't scroll, or scroll back to the top of the page (so the page is 
completely at the beginning).

As this is pretty bad on the eyes and because IE and Mozilla both handle this 
'properly' I was wondering if anyone had an idea about how much trouble it 
would be to fix this. I've looked through the source myself but, as I 
expected on beforehand, I couldn't locate the place where this gets done.

Thanks in advance for any replies on this matter,

Jelmer Feenstra