[WSG] Slow loading of CSS

2005-01-03 Thread Ryan Sabir
Hi all, Its great that more and more people are fully laying out their sites using CSS, but I'm often seeing the problem where the HTML loads before the CSS, leaving a second or so where you can see the raw structure of the site before it gets the stylesheet applied. For example:

Re: [WSG] Slow loading of CSS

2005-01-03 Thread David R
Ryan Sabir wrote: Hi all, Its great that more and more people are fully laying out their sites using CSS, but I'm often seeing the problem where the HTML loads before the CSS, leaving a second or so where you can see the raw structure of the site before it gets the stylesheet applied. For example:

Re: [WSG] Slow loading of CSS

2005-01-03 Thread Bert Doorn
It's called a Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) See http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp (Found in Resources section of the Web Standards Group's site) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

Re: [WSG] Slow loading of CSS

2005-01-03 Thread Prabhath Sirisena
Hi Ryan, This is a common problem, (Flash of Unstyled Content) with plenty of cures. Check this out: http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp Prabhath Sirisena www.vesess.com On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:34:17 +1100, Ryan Sabir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Its great that more and more

Re: [WSG] Slow loading of CSS

2005-01-03 Thread Lea de Groot
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:34:17 +1100, Ryan Sabir wrote: I'm often seeing the problem where the HTML loads before the CSS, leaving a second or so where you can see the raw structure of the site before it gets the stylesheet applied. For example: Its called a FOUC - a flash of unstyled content.

Re: [WSG] Slow loading of CSS

2005-01-03 Thread Roger Johansson
On 3 jan 2005, at 14.02, Lea de Groot wrote: Its called a FOUC - a flash of unstyled content. Does this problem happen with other browsers? From memory, it only happens in IE5.5 and Safari (ok, that probably means it happens in Konquerer too...) Safari? I use it all the time, 10-15 hours a day,

Re: [WSG] Slow loading of CSS

2005-01-03 Thread Rene Saarsoo
Hi, Interestingly I saw the FOUC for about a minute before the style appeared, and it was a good thing, because the site was fully usable, so I read it through before any styles were applied :) I have mostly encountered this with cssZenGarden (when the stylesheet is fetched from some