On 09/30/2011 02:45 PM, jidanni@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.