81 accessing the site through dial-up

Regarding cocerns for users with slow access, when I use dial-up, I opening several pages in various windows so I can be loading one while reading another. This technique does this automatically.

Unlimited local calling is relatively rare outside the US so slow speed users are usually concerned about the total time online. I love this technique for it’s potential for entire sites to be viewed offline easily.

But the designer would have to find a way to let users know that the entire site is loaded and can be viewed offline.

posted at 02:40 pm on June 9, 2004 by J. Remold

82 Thanks

This is something I searched for. Thanks

posted at 07:10 am on June 28, 2004 by PNDesign

83 twitchy flash-of-text effect?

I know I’m coming in three months late here, but if anyone’s still tracking the thread, I wonder that no one has noted (and provided the, perhaps, super clever solution which escapes me still) the quick flash-of-text you get in many browsers when deploying this technique.

Sure, it’s just all the IEs and definitely a by-product of bandwidth, but it happens even to a relatively meager 20K glossary (for instance). The javascript can’t go to work until the document loads, which means that the body of the text flashes quickly before your eyes before it’s mostly rewritten to “display: none”.

This flash is esthetically unacceptable. The “obvious” solution (set to “display: none” in CSS and wait for the javascript to display the first element, or whatever) is also unacceptable as anyone with CSS capabilities and disabled javascript won’t see a thing.

Am I missing something or is there a workaround for that?

— H

posted at 05:09 pm on July 20, 2004 by Heidi

84 A potential solution for the flash in the pan...

In response to Heidi’s question, as this script relies on an onload event, that is why you see the flash. The only solution I can think of off-hand would be hiding the whole page until the whole thing is loaded and revealing it all in the onload event. To make this work with JS on or off, I would write some JS in the head which wraps an if document.getElementById() around a [removed] JS line which writes a css rule stating “body {display: none}” or something similar to hide the page. You could then add a JS function to the onload event to undo this.

Again, this is purely hypothetical, I have not tried it out for sure, but in theory it should work.

posted at 09:46 pm on August 3, 2004 by Aaron G

85 selectDiv - improvement of this script

I have tried to improve this script, but the [url=“http://biografica.tzone.it/lorenzodetomasi/commonscontent/selectdiv/”]new widget[/url] still has some bugs.
Please look at it.
Thanks.

[url=“http://biografica.tzone.it/lorenzodetomasi/”]Lorenzo De Tomasi[/url]

posted at 11:50 am on August 4, 2004 by Lorenzo De Tomasi