Happens in Safari too. I was wondering if it was just my set-up, but it seems something is going on. The problem seemed to kick in (for me) sometime yesterday. .
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's a Wikipedia article. There is an error. There is the > edit link. Now I click the edit link. It's five seconds > after the page has been displayed. Now some Javascript > kicks in, that runs 5 seconds after the page first appeared. > And it moves the edit link sideways, so instead I click > the history link. What!? > > Can this stop, please? I have already disabled all > personal Javascript and all gadgets. > > I run Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu Linux 10.10 on a > netbook/laptop with only moderate background load > and plenty of RAM. Many users would have less > powerful setups. > > If Javascript needs to run very late in the page > loading process (why?), could it please refrain from > rearranging layout elements of the page? It's > like a little flea circus doing its tricks > for 7-8 seconds after the page loads. I have > to sit on my hands, not touching anything > until the fleas get tired and stop. All this > "usability" and the steward election banner that > needs to pop-up before it hides, is soooo very > tiring. > > I got firebug installed, to study the timing > of a loading page. When I reload a page, so all > elements are in caches, the first parts including > geoip lookup take 60 ms. Then the first images > load at +2 seconds. I have no idea what makes > it take 2 seconds before the first image is loaded. > All images load really fast. Later, after a gap, > ext.vector.collapsibleNav, -Tabs, editWarning, > and simpleSearch start loading at +4.5 seconds. > > Without other running programs, these times > shrink to +1 and +2.5 seconds. But there are > still inexplicably long gaps between elements. > If all images are loaded after 1.4 seconds, > why does collapsibleNav start loading at +2.5? > This Javascript is going to rearrange the > left margin menu, so I'm likely to hit the > wrong link when I want to click there. > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- David Goodman DGG at the enWP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DGG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
