Ads pushing the threads down (display distortion)
Jul 2, 2019 | 11:44 am
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Ads pushing the threads down (display distortion)
Hi, I made a thread here explaining how loading ads annoyingly move the "view first unread" button.
The thread was deleted, I think i know why now, but here's your screenshot now...
Note: this happens everywhere, W7, W10, Chrome, Firefox, Home, Work, Laptop, Desktop!
The thread was deleted, I think i know why now, but here's your screenshot now...
Note: this happens everywhere, W7, W10, Chrome, Firefox, Home, Work, Laptop, Desktop!
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Jul 2, 2019 | 1:34 pm
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Jul 2, 2019 | 1:51 pm
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It's unlikely intentional and actually just bad coding. When the page loads the browser sees a rough outline of the contents, which are marked up in HTML. The HTML and the associated stylesheets tell the browser where all the parts belong. This all together forms the DOM, which is interpreted to render the page, e.g. the colours and sizes of buttons, images, text. What happens sometimes is that an image is loaded but doesn't have a size specified in the first instance, so the browser only knows there'll be an image in a certain location, but not how big. Once the image is downloaded and rendered it is placed in full size, or alternatively the size is then set via JavaScript, but what happens is that the entire DOM is shifted as the browser now has to recalculate everything else to accommodate that image.
It's super annoying and as a software developer something I very much dislike website's doing, but with ads unfortunately the host site has little to no control over this. If the ads are always the same dimensions they could fix it, though.
It's super annoying and as a software developer something I very much dislike website's doing, but with ads unfortunately the host site has little to no control over this. If the ads are always the same dimensions they could fix it, though.
Jul 2, 2019 | 4:13 pm
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Oh i'm sure it's not intentional....
What I would suggest doing is either of these:
*Inline the add after the top post of each page, many website do like this, anyone browsing past the OP will still see the add and it prevents this.
*Another option would be to move the "view last unread" from the header of the top post to somewhere near the top banner. That way at least you can aim for it without the goal posts moving
Thank you for listening
What I would suggest doing is either of these:
*Inline the add after the top post of each page, many website do like this, anyone browsing past the OP will still see the add and it prevents this.
*Another option would be to move the "view last unread" from the header of the top post to somewhere near the top banner. That way at least you can aim for it without the goal posts moving
Thank you for listening
