Behavior of Web Forms

Hi all,
Currently we are in the process of testing our forms that will be deployed on the web and we seems to be having issue with the fact that when you scroll up/down the display is not smooth. The screen becomes black and shady with all display modes.
We are using forms 6i, Oracle 8i (8.1.7) and Oracle 9ias 1.0.2.2 Jinitiator and IE 5.5 and 6.0 on Win NT 4.0 (SP 4.0) and Win 2000 PE (SP 2).
Also when custom log on screen is displayed the cursor will not respond (ie no blinking cursor) and tab will not advance cursor to the next text item until you minimize and then maximize the browser window before this effects come on.
I hope we are not the only one having this behavior and is the behaviour from forms or IE or windows.

You probably need to make sure you can reproduce the problem in a simple case but if you are seeing the Form flicker when you scroll the scroll bar in IE then this is infact and IE problem when it tries to re-draw the screen as each pixel is scrolled. On eway around thsi could be to set separateFrame=true so that Forms is not inside the browser. Also if you can try with IE and Jinit you can prove if the issue is with IE.
Regards
Grant Ronald
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