PH Smiley blipvert...
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Turn7

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25,310 posts

244 months

Wednesday 5th June 2019
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when swapping between threads on various fora.

In the nano second for a new page to laod , I get a facefull of the old smiley....

Whats that about ?

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MattDell

3,292 posts

178 months

PH TEAM

Thursday 6th June 2019
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I assume you're seeing something like this in the blip?



The technical explanation for this is
  • Our site header isn't part of the forums code
  • When the forum loads it requests the header
  • Part of the header response includes CSS, which is what sets the logo and icons to be the right size
  • Because this is being loaded via JavaScript, it's happening in the <body />
  • Since this loads outside of the <head /> element, the page loads before the styles have been downloaded so you'll see it adjust as it loads and comprehends the rules
  • You won't see this happen on other parts of the site because it all happens on the server before the response is sent to the client and we can serve the CSS in the <head /> element
The non-technical explantion for this is
  • The inner workings of PistonHeads.com resemble the result of a Rube Goldberg machine architected by feral hamsters
That said, it may be the combination of plugins you're using. If I use the site on Firefox on a PC I don't see any blip. It could be that one of your plugins is forcing your browser to request a new version of the CSS file on each page load which takes a few hundred milliseconds. Most browsers would cache the CSS file and only request a new version once us techies tell it to.

LordGrover

34,026 posts

235 months

Friday 28th June 2019
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This has returned for me.