Chad,
I think you have the right idea - if you look at http://www.guitarwiki.com - you see something even more strange - first it loads the navigation menu then the logo graphic with a blue background - then the google ads come in under the navigation box and the blue background is swapped for a transparent one. It also does an impressive jump up - as well as the traditional right.
Bizarre...
I tried 2 things: First I enlarged the size of the logo to see if maybe there was some problem related to a change in width of the table column on the arrival of the navigation column - that made no difference.
then I made a new headbg.jpg (the background image) into which I pasted my wiki logo. After some pixel pushing I got the position right and I solved the problem. Not pretty but at least I'm not twitching anymore.
I'll add a note explaining what I did to the 1084 bug as a kind of work-around.
... and I'll email Nohat and tell him about it too.
Hasta manana todos.
Paul Youlten ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Perrin" perrin@apotheon.com To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] jumping logo
NSK wrote:
Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox are different things: Firefox is just the lightweight version of Mozilla and doesn't contain all the features of Mozilla.
This is somewhat off-topic, but . . .
Err, that's not really accurate. Firefox includes features Mozilla lacks, and its interface works differently. I haven't looked into the technical details, but I'm sure there are some "under the hood" differences as well.
The way the interface works is, in my experience, actually closer to the way the IE interface works than to that of Mozilla. For instance, Firefox allows one to use Ctrl+Enter to automatically navigate to .com domains, and will refresh the page when the F5 key is pressed. These are both features borrowed from IE, and not from Mozilla.
I suspect the interface functionality is much of the reason Firefox is stealing away IE users far more effectively than Mozilla ever did: it attracts people who stuck with IE because they didn't like the Mozilla interface, but would prefer something other than IE, and it attracts people who are just now waking up to browsers other than IE and don't want to have to learn a new way of doing things.
I've rambled on enough about that. Back to the subject at hand:
Maybe the logo image is just loading at an inopportune moment. I haven't checked the code for it, but it might be worth investigating. If the logo is loading before some formatting that affects its placement, that would account for the jump. On the other hand, if it's actually just a bug in IE (which I'm inclined to believe), and it doesn't actually affect the usability, functionality, or final appearance of the page, it might also be worth ignoring if no simple solution appears.
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