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| From | Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript |
| Subject | Re: Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? |
| Date | 2016-05-07 22:51 +0200 |
| Organization | PointedEars Software (PES) |
| Message-ID | <2597183.QcWBBMbo8E@PointedEars.de> (permalink) |
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Steve L <x@y.z> wrote:
^^^^^^^
Your “From” is in violation of network standards, Netiquette, and
maybe even the Acceptable Use Policy of your service provider.
You have been warned.
> On Thu, 05 May 2016 10:16:58 +0100, Ben Bacarisse
> <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
Attribution line, not attribution novel.
>>bit-naughty@hotmail.com writes:
>>Make sure that the initial properties render it invisible. Make it
>>visible (by whatever means you are using -- the position, visibility or
>>display properties) only when it is ready to be seen.
>
> My experience is from several years ago so maybe things have changed.
> IIRC updates to the document are not rendered until the current script
> has finished
Unreliable. The only reliable way to avoid additional repaint is to not
insert the element object into the document tree before its CSS properties
have been set.
> or has suspended execution.
Impossible.
> In situations where I DID want the document to update immediately I had to
> use a short setTimeout to pause execution.
Still true, except that window.setTimeout() has never paused execution (that
is a common misconception). Instead, code that is to run independent of
window updates and would potentially block execution, is to be executed with
window.setTimeout() or the Web Workers API.
--
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Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-05-04 23:06 -0700
Re: Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-05-05 10:16 +0100
Re: Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? Steve L <x@y.z> - 2016-05-07 15:40 -0400
Re: Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-05-07 22:51 +0200
Re: Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? Dr J R Stockton <reply1600@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-05-08 19:18 +0100
Re: Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-05-06 12:53 +0200
Re: Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-05-06 13:11 +0200
Re: Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-05-06 14:08 +0200
Re: Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-05-06 16:10 +0200
Re: Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-05-10 00:53 -0700
Re: Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-05-10 10:38 +0200
Re: Will insertBefore show it IMMEDIATELY? Osmo Saarikumpu <osmo@weppipakki.com> - 2016-05-11 17:34 +0300
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