Thankfully, Google has updated its Chrome web browser with a feature created to fight this annoying trend.
All users would have noticed the pesky jumping very frequently. In the browser without Scroll Anchoring, the page jumps back to the top after it finishes loading, while the other stays where the user has scrolled to. This kind of content takes more time to load when compared to general text, due to the bigger size. Today we're preventing an average of nearly three "jumps" per pageview, and we're still getting better.
Google has also released a video offering a side-by-side comparison of previous experience and the new experience with the update. The difference is quite obvious and scroll anchoring will surely prevent annoyance among users while trying to a load a page online using Chrome.
Tapping on a link before a web page has fully loaded is one of the 21st century's biggest risks: in fact, it's nearly a given that just a moment before your finger touches the screen, the page will randomly shift upwards, resulting in a misclick.
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This article first appeared on MyBroadband and is republished with permission.
Chrome scroll anchoring does what its name says. It locks on to a particular web page element that's visible on screen. Thus, even if another image is slowly loaded above the one that is being displayed, there is no shift downwards.
One of the most annoying things about browsing the web on a phone is that pages tend to jump while they are loading. Called Scroll Anchoring, the feature was first available in a developer build a year ago, but is now rolling out more widely to users on Chrome 56 or later. Web developers who experience issues with the feature can implement an optional CSS property to disable the behavior.
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