Blank flash during paging
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Hi folks,
I've recently created my second concrete5 website project and everything seems to be good when my client says there is blank flash if a new page will be loaded - regardless of it is cached by concrete5 or isn't.
Before I deployed concrete5, my client used a Joomla installation with equivalent site layout and content (plus the same server configuration), hence nothing has changed but the CMS.
So I watched out whether my client is right - and it was the first time I ever noticed this effect. While the Joomla powered site instantaneously switches from one page to another (assumed both were cached by the browser), the concrete5 powered site first switches to a blank page (for just some milliseconds) and then shows up the new page.
From this it follows that in the Joomla site seemingly only the content of the page changes while in the concrete5 site there is a complete new page load.
Is this a known issue? Is there something crucially different between Joomla's and concrete5's page loading? As far as I know Joomla and concrete5 both use an MVC pattern and database access.
My first steps were to deactivate loading jQuery libraries, insert a meta tag to enable explicit caching by the browser, send a caching HTTP header and enable caching at concrete5. My client is frustrated of that behaviour and wants to go back to Joomla - but I don't want to :-) Can anybody help me to keep my client using concrete5?
Maybe someone wants to see the effect in action. For some days, both installations will be online reachable at:
Joomla:http://www.stilcolor.de
Concrete5:http://c5.stilcolor.de
I would appreciate any help!
Best,
David
I've recently created my second concrete5 website project and everything seems to be good when my client says there is blank flash if a new page will be loaded - regardless of it is cached by concrete5 or isn't.
Before I deployed concrete5, my client used a Joomla installation with equivalent site layout and content (plus the same server configuration), hence nothing has changed but the CMS.
So I watched out whether my client is right - and it was the first time I ever noticed this effect. While the Joomla powered site instantaneously switches from one page to another (assumed both were cached by the browser), the concrete5 powered site first switches to a blank page (for just some milliseconds) and then shows up the new page.
From this it follows that in the Joomla site seemingly only the content of the page changes while in the concrete5 site there is a complete new page load.
Is this a known issue? Is there something crucially different between Joomla's and concrete5's page loading? As far as I know Joomla and concrete5 both use an MVC pattern and database access.
My first steps were to deactivate loading jQuery libraries, insert a meta tag to enable explicit caching by the browser, send a caching HTTP header and enable caching at concrete5. My client is frustrated of that behaviour and wants to go back to Joomla - but I don't want to :-) Can anybody help me to keep my client using concrete5?
Maybe someone wants to see the effect in action. For some days, both installations will be online reachable at:
Joomla:http://www.stilcolor.de
Concrete5:http://c5.stilcolor.de
I would appreciate any help!
Best,
David
Ok, heres what I noticed, on google chrome, I got a google translation bar come up, no surprise, as I am in an english speaking country and the site is in german, now if I left the translation bar where it is and navigate between pages, I get the "white flash", if I dismiss this message and navigate between pages, no "white flash".
I tried the site in firefox, no translation bar, and no "white flash"
So the only circumstances where I can see the white flash, is under google Chrome with a translation bar, everywhere else it seems fine.
I tried the site in firefox, no translation bar, and no "white flash"
So the only circumstances where I can see the white flash, is under google Chrome with a translation bar, everywhere else it seems fine.
No 'Flash' for me either. All seems fine. :) Using Safari!
1st: thanks for the JavaScript error hint - I think it arises since I have deactivated jQuery! So I better reactive it :-)
2nd: That's a very interesting behaviour - my client uses Firefox, I use Google Chrome and Firefox for testing purposes. On both browsers I could see the "intermediate blank page".
So - because you guys don't see it - I can try to convince my client by presenting these comments. :-)
Apparently, it is a browser/machine depending behaviour. *doh*
Kind regards,
David
2nd: That's a very interesting behaviour - my client uses Firefox, I use Google Chrome and Firefox for testing purposes. On both browsers I could see the "intermediate blank page".
So - because you guys don't see it - I can try to convince my client by presenting these comments. :-)
Apparently, it is a browser/machine depending behaviour. *doh*
Kind regards,
David
All I see is a javascript error with Firefox Firebug on the C5 site.