Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-10-10 Thread jidanni
Indeed, next thing you know it will jerk the ones mouse pointer between a
[ ]Permanently accept
[ ]Permanently reject
box just as one is clicking.

 DF == Daniel Friesen li...@nadir-seen-fire.com writes:
DF ;) I think you underestimate text browsers.
DF http://freshmeat.net/projects/links/
Did they ever fix links to be able to browse
$ links http://zh.wikipedia.org/ or even
$ links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma properly?

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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-10-08 Thread jidanni
 BL == Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com writes:
BL Jidanni, are you using a text browser?  That would probably explain
BL the particular problem you're encountering.
Can text browsers even see any javascript site notices? No.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-10-08 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 11-10-08 04:03 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
 BL == Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com writes:
 BL Jidanni, are you using a text browser?  That would probably explain
 BL the particular problem you're encountering.
 Can text browsers even see any javascript site notices? No.
;) I think you underestimate text browsers.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/links/

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]


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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-10-01 Thread Daniel Friesen
The central notice banner is only shown to logged in users. Why are we
even loading the notice in a separate out of band http request. And not
bothering to cache it at that.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]

On 11-09-30 10:27 PM, Jon Davis wrote:
 I see what he's talking about.  The page loads, then the site notice
 javascript loads (pushing the page down) then the central notice loads.

 It is rather obnoxious that the central notice loads a noticeable amount
 _after_ everything else.  The div (or what ever container it is) could at
 least be pre-load to the objects size when it loads.

 -Jon

 On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 20:15, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:

 Login to http://zh.wikipedia.org/ and stare at the screen for a few
 seconds.
 Wait, it is probably due to me User:Jidanni being a member of some club.
 Anyway, there is no way for a normal user to file a proper bug report
 about it, as it is all hidden in javascript that he does not see.
 I'll contact some of those club members about this problem.

 Note that maybe their browsers have a wide enough screen so the line
 counts of the messages are the same so they don't notice the problem.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-10-01 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Daniel Friesen
li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
 The central notice banner is only shown to logged in users. Why are we
 even loading the notice in a separate out of band http request. And not
 bothering to cache it at that.

It is cacheable (public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300) but for some
reason my browser (FF 6.0.1) isn't caching it. There are all sorts of
reasons CN needs to load the notice using JS, at least for anons. For
logged-in users, I guess it might be possible to move the logic
server-side, but that would be kind of stupid if you can't also do
that for logged-out users. A height reservation would probably be
best.

Roan

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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-10-01 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 11-10-01 01:07 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
 On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Daniel Friesen
 li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
 The central notice banner is only shown to logged in users. Why are we
 even loading the notice in a separate out of band http request. And not
 bothering to cache it at that.

 It is cacheable (public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300) but for some
 reason my browser (FF 6.0.1) isn't caching it. There are all sorts of
 reasons CN needs to load the notice using JS, at least for anons. For
 logged-in users, I guess it might be possible to move the logic
 server-side, but that would be kind of stupid if you can't also do
 that for logged-out users. A height reservation would probably be
 best.

 Roan
Actually, it seams to be:

On secure I get:
Cache-Control: public, s-maxage=600, max-age=0
There is a Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345181
It's marked fixed but I'm not so sure.

On normal en.wp I get:
Cache-Control: private, s-maxage=0, max-age=0, must-revalidate

There's also no ETag or Last-Modified so even if there is a max-age that
must-revalidate could have the effect of nullifying the max-age.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]


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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-10-01 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 09/30/2011 02:45 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
 On some of the Wikipedia sites, there are some messages near the top of
 each page. These messages change every 10 or so seconds.
 The problem is the number of lines in each of the changing messages is
 not the same.

 This causes the entire page to jerk up and down the screen every 10 or
 so seconds. One might be reading many screenfulls below, but still the
 page jerks up and down. I've never seen anything like that in the
 history of WWW.

I have not seen this happening every 10 seconds, but it's bad enough
that the banner or site notice arrives 10 seconds after the first load,
and jerks the page around. It should be possible to allow a fixed size
space for the banner, and allow it to be delayed without jerking. This
includes the rearrangement of the menu to the left, and extra tabs.


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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-10-01 Thread Benjamin Lees
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26234 might be relevant.

Jidanni, are you using a text browser?  That would probably explain
the particular problem you're encountering.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-10-01 Thread Liangent
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote:
 I have not seen this happening every 10 seconds, but it's bad enough
 that the banner or site notice arrives 10 seconds after the first load,
 and jerks the page around. It should be possible to allow a fixed size
 space for the banner, and allow it to be delayed without jerking. This
 includes the rearrangement of the menu to the left, and extra tabs.

It was every 10 seconds, but I have tweaked site js (as a local
sysop on zhwiki) a little to avoid that. Now instead, it jerks only
when a message occupying more space shows up. (ie. it only jerks down
but never jerks up)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-10-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message -
 From: Platonides platoni...@gmail.com

 Do they change in the same page view, or when changing pages?
 (I have seen the later, when several campaigns are enabled, but the
 former shouldn't happen)

In the past -- especially because I'm prone to run Firefox in Zoom text only
mode, 4 or 5 steps up -- I have seen top-of-page inserts do this to pages,
as they rotate.  Generally, it's fundraising inserts.

If I see it again, I'll hang a ticket on it.

Cheers,
- jra
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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-10-01 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message -
 From: Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com

 On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Daniel Friesen
 li...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
  The central notice banner is only shown to logged in users. Why are
  we
  even loading the notice in a separate out of band http request. And
  not
  bothering to cache it at that.
 
 It is cacheable (public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300) but for some
 reason my browser (FF 6.0.1) isn't caching it. There are all sorts of
 reasons CN needs to load the notice using JS, at least for anons. For
 logged-in users, I guess it might be possible to move the logic
 server-side, but that would be kind of stupid if you can't also do
 that for logged-out users. A height reservation would probably be
 best.

If you could do that so that it worked for people with unexpectedly large
type sizes set in their browser (ie: and didn't spill out of your box overtop
of the rest of the page) that would be great.

I'm not sure it's possible, though; is it?

Cheers,
-- jr 'Ctrl-+' a
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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-09-30 Thread Ashar Voultoiz
On 30/09/11 14:45, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
 On some of the Wikipedia sites, there are some messages near the top of
 each page. These messages change every 10 or so seconds.
 The problem is the number of lines in each of the changing messages is
 not the same.

Which wikipedia sites exactly? At least give ONE example.

You probably want to open a bug report on bugzilla too :-)


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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-09-30 Thread Jon Davis
By the source code, I'd guess zh.wp


Regardless, on that bug report you might want to add the browser you are
using (With version) and anything else you can think of that might come into
play (like Greasemonkey type extensions, for Firefox)

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:35, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote:

 On 30/09/11 14:45, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
  On some of the Wikipedia sites, there are some messages near the top of
  each page. These messages change every 10 or so seconds.
  The problem is the number of lines in each of the changing messages is
  not the same.

 Which wikipedia sites exactly? At least give ONE example.

 You probably want to open a bug report on bugzilla too :-)


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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-09-30 Thread Platonides
jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
 On some of the Wikipedia sites, there are some messages near the top of
 each page. These messages change every 10 or so seconds.
 The problem is the number of lines in each of the changing messages is
 not the same.

 This causes the entire page to jerk up and down the screen every 10 or
 so seconds. One might be reading many screenfulls below, but still the
 page jerks up and down. I've never seen anything like that in the
 history of WWW.

 You might want to have a look at it, or forward my message to those who
 are to blame.

Do they change in the same page view, or when changing pages?
(I have seen the later, when several campaigns are enabled, but the 
former shouldn't happen)


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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-09-30 Thread Steve Summit
Platonides wrote:
 jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
 On some of the Wikipedia sites, there are some messages near the top of
 each page. [...]  This causes the entire page to jerk up and down the 
 screen...

 Do they change in the same page view, or when changing pages?
 (I have seen the later, when several campaigns are enabled, but the 
 former shouldn't happen)

I noticed something similar a few weeks ago.  It didn't quite
match jidanni's description, but it was certainly annoying.
The top-of-page message -- it might have been one about the image
tagging campaign -- was JavaScript-enabled, with a show/hide
button.  And, for me at least, it rendered initially in one
state, and then, after the entire rest of the page had loaded and
rendered, some last bit of JavaScript seemed to run, and flip the
show/collapse state.  By now, typically, I already had my mouse
over some regular link or edit button I intended to click, but
just as I did so, the page jumped by a few lines, and I'd miss.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-09-30 Thread jidanni
Login to http://zh.wikipedia.org/ and stare at the screen for a few seconds.
Wait, it is probably due to me User:Jidanni being a member of some club.
Anyway, there is no way for a normal user to file a proper bug report
about it, as it is all hidden in javascript that he does not see.
I'll contact some of those club members about this problem.

Note that maybe their browsers have a wide enough screen so the line
counts of the messages are the same so they don't notice the problem.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-09-30 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:15 PM,  jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
 Anyway, there is no way for a normal user to file a proper bug report
 about it, as it is all hidden in javascript that he does not see.

All users are welcome to file bugs at bugzilla, and this method is
frequently pushed/mentioned to users of all communities (although
there might be some language difficulties for users of the non English
language). Also most communities have a central noticeboard (For
example: [[Wikipedia:Village Pump]]  on the English Wikipedia) where
they can raise these issues.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] pages jerk up and down every 10 seconds

2011-09-30 Thread Jon Davis
I see what he's talking about.  The page loads, then the site notice
javascript loads (pushing the page down) then the central notice loads.

It is rather obnoxious that the central notice loads a noticeable amount
_after_ everything else.  The div (or what ever container it is) could at
least be pre-load to the objects size when it loads.

-Jon

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 20:15, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:

 Login to http://zh.wikipedia.org/ and stare at the screen for a few
 seconds.
 Wait, it is probably due to me User:Jidanni being a member of some club.
 Anyway, there is no way for a normal user to file a proper bug report
 about it, as it is all hidden in javascript that he does not see.
 I'll contact some of those club members about this problem.

 Note that maybe their browsers have a wide enough screen so the line
 counts of the messages are the same so they don't notice the problem.

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