388679 - Page scrolls up when images are being loaded

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 60307

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Tim Leguijt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070223 Camino/1.1b
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070223 Camino/1.1b

I believe every browser has this kind of behaviour, but I think this is something that could be enhanched.
When reading a page (especially forums with lots of images) you would scroll to a specific point on the page, and start reading that part. When images are placed above that part, and those images are started to load, the page will scroll up. This can be quite anoying sometimes.

I don't know anything about the implementation, but I assume that the browser fixes its view on - say - 100 pixels.
I also don't know much about image loading.. but it looks like the header of an image file contains the bounds, so the browser knows how heigh an image will be before it's loaded completely.
That way, when an image (of 50x50 pixels) is requested from the server, the browser can say; let's fix the view on the 100 pixels (chosen by the user) plus the 50 pixels this image will use.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Please don't file bugs using a development/beta version of Camino 5 months old.

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

Also, please try to search before filing bugs.