Closed Bug 24484 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Style "popping"

Categories

(Core :: Layout, enhancement, P3)

enhancement

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 17309

People

(Reporter: braden, Assigned: pierre)

Details

Style sheets are loaded asynchonously with documents. This causes the style
sheet usually to be applied after at least part of the document has already
loaded. Thus the style "pops" into effect. This is distracting.

It seems even less sensible that this behavior holds true for cached style
sheets.

See bug 6541 (which was not reopened for this since it evolved into documenting
some other problem). The current "solution" is for document authors to add a
proprietary "important" tag to the REL attribute of a LINK element referring to
an external stylesheet. This is not an adequate solution, as it requires
intervention on the part of the document author. There are millions of legacy
documents out on the Web which will not have this tag, and will consequently
cause Mozilla to inflict this popping on users.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
This is a dup of the now famous bug 17309 "Wait for primary style sheets before
constructing frames".


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17309 ***
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Marking as verified dup of 17309.
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