RE: [Bodington-developers] New Style Creation Pages

[Peter C. <Pet...@me...>]

> From: [...] Brian Peter Clark
> On IE 6.0 sp 2, running off the Sun app server,  when the amazon,=20
> google boxes in the side frame first appear there is a brief flash of=20
> the expanded forms before they collapse.  Does anyone else get=20
> this?

Yes.  Basically, one has a choice:

1) Render the content expanded, then use Javascript to collapse the
content.  Leads to a brief flash, as the expanded content is shown
before it is collapsed.  However, this degrades gracefully if the user
has Javascript switched off.

2) Rander the content collapsed.  No flash, but no content if the user
has Javascript switched off.

3) Make the initial page a test page that detects (for example) whether
the user has Javascript turned on, and use this to choose between
techniques (1) and (2) when rendering.

At present, technique 1 is implemented.

		- Peter