On 09/30/2011 02:45 PM, jidanni(a)jidanni.org wrote:
On some of the Wikipedia sites, there are some
messages near the top of
each page. These messages change every 10 or so seconds.
The problem is the number of lines in each of the changing messages is
not the same.
This causes the entire page to jerk up and down the screen every 10 or
so seconds. One might be reading many screenfulls below, but still the
page jerks up and down. I've never seen anything like that in the
history of WWW.
I have not seen this happening every 10 seconds, but it's bad enough
that the banner or site notice arrives 10 seconds after the first load,
and jerks the page around. It should be possible to allow a fixed size
space for the banner, and allow it to be delayed without jerking. This
includes the rearrangement of the menu to the left, and extra tabs.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se