On Jun 30, 2008, at 5:30 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Jun 30, 2008, at 8:13 PM, Francois Jordaan wrote: > >> On some sites, including one I'm working on, I've noticed a Flash of >> Unstyled Content (FOUC) in FF3, which doesn't occur in any other >> browser. >> (This is where the page content displays unstyled for a split second >> before >> the CSS kicks in.) >> >> The site I'm working on is not yet public, but here's another >> example: >> http://www.worthing.gov.uk/visiting-worthing/ >> >> Does anyone know what causes it? > > Safari 3 and WebKit nightly builds also show that FOUC. > I guess, as Bill Brown suggest, that moving the block of stylesheets > before the block of links for the js in the source code will help. > > Note that it takes a loong time before that site start displaying > something. I waited at least 6 seconds staring at a blank screen (both > Gecko and WebKit) – and that is on fast 'net connection. >
This is because there are 13(!) javascript files being loaded before anything else. I recommend merging them all and putting them at the bottom of the page. In fact, I recommend merging all the stylesheets too. This should increase performance too. http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/ Ryan Doherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
