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.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se