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Sibling comments are saying browsers hold the old page until the new one is ready, but it's not true for me. I've just watched a momentary blank page flash up
by jlokier 4y ago
Sibling comments are saying browsers hold the old page until the new one is ready, but it's not true for me.
I've just watched a momentary blank page flash up consistently when navigating forward right here on HN, for example from the front page to a comments link.
It's HN, so I think we can rule out JavaScript page generation.
Fwiw, I'm using Firefox 100.0 on a Mac, and my network is high latency.
Related issue that used to be known by more web devs: FOUC (Flash of unstyled content, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_unstyled_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_unstyled_content). There have been various techniques over the years to deal with FOUC, and it's not that straightfoward, for example waiting for custom fonts if those take a long time to load.