Getting back on track here... There's already a bug open for this issue in bugzilla ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26234). Relative to the current priorities for fundraiser engineering, this is pretty low. But if someone outside of the team wanted to take a stab at resolving this, we could potentially roll out a fix much quicker :)
Also, Kaldari started a page on wikitech for brainstorming ways to cope with the issue ( http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/CentralNotice/Optimizing_banner_loading). The ideas currently on that list focus more on speeding up the actual loading of the banner rather than totally getting read of the page jumping problem. If you have other thoughts on the matter, feel free to add them to the list. Tim/Roan, I'm going ahead and adding your suggestions to the list. Thanks! Arthur On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > On 20/11/11 22:42, Roan Kattouw wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:37 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> A Wikipedia page loads. The last thing to load is the banner. This > >> pushes the page content down. If you've clicked on a link near the top > >> of the page, the banner grabs it instead. > >> > >> This happened last year and it was reported then (and it was > >> incredibly annoying then too). It also fouls up stats on banner > >> effectiveness, as banners are clicked on without intention to do so. > >> > >> Please load the page with a space for the banner to avoid this effect. > >> > > CC fr-tech. > > > > This should be doable provided that all banners have the same > > dimensions. Which banner will be selected (if one is selected at all) > > is determined by JS and is not known by PHP (and can't be known by PHP > > due to Squid caching). > > If you hard code a space into the cached HTML, there will be no way to > turn off the banner via cookies. You'd have the opposite problem, a > blank space would appear and then disappear after a few seconds. > > Maybe we could have a <script> tag in the <head> that modifies the > relevant stylesheet rules based on cookies present. > > -- Tim Starling > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer Fundraising/Features/Offline/Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
