Re: Website layouts "jumping"

Op Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:01:09 +0100 schreef The New guy  
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> As ads are being loaded the text often jumps around as the images are
> being placed as the page is being loaded. Is there any way of stopping
> this? I think Internet Explorer used to be able to do that. It loads the
> basic finalized layout, then the images are filled in as the available
> bandwith allows.  It means you start reading right away then enjoy the
> images during or after you finished reading the article.  Much smarter.

Opera also does this - but this only works when the page author includes  
the necessary width and height attributes for images and plugins etc.

> I would love to be able to do this in Opera. Is it possible?

You can experiment with the refresh rate, which is how long Opera waits  
before refre****ng the display while data is still coming in. See  
Preferences > Advanced > Browsing

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