diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 12d3b46..8a1635e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 *SVN*
 
-* Prevent a crash in Safari when calling String#evalJSON(true) on very large strings. Add String#isJSON. Closes #7834. [Tobie Langel]
+* Fix a Safari rendering issue when floating elements could temporarily disappear when opacity was set to 1.  Closes #7063.  References #3044, #3813, #6706.  [Thomas Fuchs, davidjrice]
 
-* Prevent a crash in Safari 1.3 on String#stripScripts and String#extractScripts. Closes #8332. [grant, Tobie Langel]
+* Prevent a crash in Safari when calling String#evalJSON(true) on very large strings. Add String#isJSON.  Closes #7834.  [Tobie Langel]
 
-* Allow JSON data to contain line breaks. Closes #8271. [pijyster, Tobie Langel]
+* Prevent a crash in Safari 1.3 on String#stripScripts and String#extractScripts.  Closes #8332.  [grant, Tobie Langel]
+
+* Allow JSON data to contain line breaks.  Closes #8271.  [pijyster, Tobie Langel]
 
 * Add Hash.prototype.index which returns the first found property that has a specific value.  Closes #8528.  [Thomas Fuchs, slusarz, Mislav Marohnić]
   Examples:
diff --git a/src/dom.js b/src/dom.js
index 23fe5b1..05ccefe 100644
--- a/src/dom.js
+++ b/src/dom.js
@@ -797,6 +797,23 @@ else if (Prototype.Browser.Gecko) {
 }
 
 else if (Prototype.Browser.WebKit) {
+  Element.Methods.setOpacity = function(element, value) {
+    element = $(element);
+    element.style.opacity = (value == 1 || value === '') ? '' :
+      (value < 0.00001) ? 0 : value;
+    
+    if (value == 1)
+      if(element.tagName == 'IMG' && element.width) { 
+        element.width++; element.width--;
+      } else try {
+        var n = document.createTextNode(' ');
+        element.appendChild(n);
+        element.removeChild(n);
+      } catch (e) {}
+    
+    return element;
+  }
+  
   // Safari returns margins on body which is incorrect if the child is absolutely
   // positioned.  For performance reasons, redefine Position.cumulativeOffset for
   // KHTML/WebKit only.