Talk:Flash of unstyled content
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I think this actually is meaningful content. It describes a real bug in IE. When googling for "Flash of Unstyled Content", I get about 15.000 hits.
- I dunno, smacks of original research to me, or pimping the linked article. If you fleshed out the article some more, provided multiple links I'd be happier. But I'll cull the tag anyway. --Blowdart 20:15, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you! It is the first article I have contributed with, so I'm happy you let it be. I understand it is not safe from deletion yet, though. I'll try expanding it a bit. Beornas 20:21, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I've experienced FOUC and learned how to eliminate it from my web pages
I found the jump from plaintext to styled text unnerving. I like to think I craft nice pages. I'm on a modern Mac, OS X, and Safari 3, my websites are often WordPress -- a mix of HTML, php, javascript and usually heavily styled.
I Googled on "fouc safari" and found much corroborating the existence of the problem, like Tim Murtaugh at o2b.net, and an August 2006 claim at stylegala.com that FOUC had been written out of Safari, which can't be true since I'm using a build of Safari later than that.
At 456BereaStreet.com the author says the problem is random. It's not. It can be consistently reproduced provided the browser cache is cleared between each attempt.
Old information geared to MSIE offers "fixes" that are really just tweeks to the <head> section of HTML pages, reorganizing the lines or inserting blank, or "dummy," script and style calls. Not elegant, and not successful in Safari.
At jonaquino.blogspot.com (Feb 2007), Jonathan Aquino offers what seems the most plausible explanation for FOUC and offers the cleanest (most proper) fix for Safari. According to Aquino, Safari pulls javascript and style in parallel streams. One or the other stream may try to access a style property unset or reset by the other stream. Firefox pulls the two streams sequentially, "... in series rather than in parallel....", according to Mr. Aquino.
I'm on the prowl for a Safari patch, meanwhile I have Mr. Aquino's fix. At this point, I myself think FOUC may have been a teapot-sized tempest, something that will fade into cyber-trivia like the once irksome TRS-80 "flying a" that appeared at the top of the line instead on the baseline. FOUC doesn't need a Wikipedia page, as Wikipedia cannot become a clearing house for odd bugs.
John Sinclair (talk) 17:12, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
