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Viewport jumping is the scourge of web browsing; if some browser deployed some kind of advanced heuristic to try and get rid of it completely that alone might g

Viewport jumping is the scourge of web browsing; if some browser deployed some kind of advanced heuristic to try and get rid of it completely that alone might get me to switch.

drampelt 7y ago
I remembered hearing about Chrome doing it a while ago [1] but I still personally experience it fairly often. 1: https://blog.google/products/chrome/taking-aim-annoying-page-jumps-chrome/ https://blog.google/products/chrome/taking-aim-annoying-page...
- staktrace 7y ago
  Both Firefox and Chrome have implementations of scroll anchoring which is intended to fix this. The implementations are different and neither is perfect, but in a lot of cases they do help with jumping.
eps 7y ago
Nearly all image formats have image dimensions in their header, so a hundred-byte prefetch per image should give the browser the image size IF it's not specified in the html or css.