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I'm not sure if it something that is a big problem with good
bandwidth, but I have many occasions where I want to
touch a link on my Smartphone and, just as I press the
screen, the page downloads some other picture or
whatnot and everything shifts to somewhere else. This
means that I sometimes
get directed to some other link
instead.
So, it would be useful if a new link position is not activated
for a fraction of a second after it appears.
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I've that problem, mostly with pages that are chock full of Javascript and Flash objects, and was thinking the display engine could draw the page in all directions from cursor/mouse position. |
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If this happens just as you press the screen, maybe it is on purpose to trick you into visiting preferred link. If I had a website I would try to make it so just about anything one did brought viewers to a page full of expensively purchased ads. |
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Remind me never to visit www.bungston.com |
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Yes, it certainly could be designed that a screen press
actually causes the page to rearrange itself, all the
time making it look like it simply downloaded and
inserted another jpg or 2. |
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But in my case, I swear the smartphone knows when
my finger is a fraction of an inch from the screen, and
manages to shift things within that short time.
Sometimes I can hit "back" and wait for the complete
page to download again. Sometimes "back" doesn't
work, particularly with online banking. So I need to
find another link and be very careful to wait for the
whole page to settle down. |
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[ling] That's a symptom of very poor web authoring. |
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As for the idea, way to much opportunity for abuse,
like redirecting to a different link(and putting in that
pause) over and over when you try to leave a page. |
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If HTML link delays are outlawed, only outlaws will have HTML link delays. . . . . : ) |
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Hmmm... but if it is implemented by the HTML reader,
every time the screen layout is changed by the reader,
there is a 0.5s delay before making links active again.
I suppose that could be abused, but then the page
would be continuously jumping about, depending on
the bandwidth, which would make the information on
the page pretty useless (no change there, then, for
advertising!). |
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[Ling], it's trivial to change where a link is or looks
like it is whilst displaying any desired static or moving
flashing red "congratulations, you're our 1,000,000th
visitor" |
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[Voice] yup! But, the world is full of poorly authored
sites. |
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So, a reader/client tool may help. |
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I think it's possible & preferable to do what this idea
is saying. |
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Technically: The client tool could render the HTML
page, and then detect a clicked link, and then, in
the background, pre-fetch the link content. During
that delay period (0.25s), it could detect that new
content (JS) changed the rendering around where
the link was clicked. If it did change, then it'd kill
the click & let the user decide (with some UI
notification). If it didn't change, it'd continue
fetching & then begin rendering the new link. |
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If the problem is from 3rd parties (typically data analysers and social-networks) that take their sweet time sending a pixel-dot or "Like" icon over, you can block those sites. |
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There are parts of the Visual Studio user interface (the parts that interface with TFS) which exhibit this problem. ******* ******* MS. ****. |
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I have a solution to this problem that I call RSIC. It allows
you plenty of time to cancel an activated link before it
leaves the currently loading page and jumps you to the
new one. |
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If it's the Chrome browser under Android, a zero effort
solution is to not tap, but press and hold to pop up the
"right click equivalent" selection. I've semi-unconsciously
trained myself to do this, plus open links in a new tab,
whenever I'm other than in a trusted & familiar site.
There's deep philosophy around this idea, from the
concept of a browser being master rather than slave to
content (which begins with browersers surviving
replacement with apps), to touchscreen mouse
equivalents and the 35+ YO issue of 1 button vs 2+ button
mice. I'm kinda demoralized about these fights at the
moment, so will say no more. |
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Back in my day, this was called dial-up. |
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RSIC is the next evolution of dial-up link protection. |
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Redstone Scientific Information Center? |
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Really Slow Internet Connection. |
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