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Cufon font replacement: How can I eliminate the flash of unstyled text that occurs when the page loads?

I'm using Cufon to replace the font of selected heading elements on a site I'm working on, but whenever I load a page, there is a noticeable flash of unstyled text before Cufon replaces the text. I expect that I may be doing it wrong. Here's what I have in the <head>: <script src="/js/Monotype_Corsiva_italic_400.font.js"></script> <scri...

Browser displays page without styles for a short moment (visual glitch)

I have observed that, very infrequently, Internet Explorer (7 or 8, it does not matter) displays our web pages (www.epsitec.ch) a short time without applying the CSS. The layout appears completely broken, with everything displayed sequentially from top to bottom. When the page has finished loading, everything finally gets displayed prope...

Brief white screen when loading PHP page?

What would cause a brief flash of white screen while a PHP page is loading? I just noticed it today on a WordPress theme that I am building and am wondering if this is a cause for concern. As a page loads, the screen will flash white before showing the page content. Sometimes this happens on every single page load, other times it only ha...

Need help eliminating flash of unstyled content on my site.

I need someone who can provide me with a solution that will stop the flash of unstyled content (fouc) on my site. It's located here: http://www.cmscritic.com ...

jquery image fader, flash of unstyled content

www.mymediaventure.com i can't stop the images flashing up before they are put on top of each other and then the fader starts. at the moment, im setting display to none in an inline style attribute on all but the first image. then in the jquery im displaying all the images. but it loads the pictures then cycles through each without fa...

Page Load - White "flash" inbetween pages

There are two websites, one live one under development. I am porting a site to Zend Framework (for maintainability/integration purposes). The original (live) site has seamless page loads - it will load, then update the content on the screen while keeping the background image, navigation etc on the page. The ported site (development) "f...

Flash Of Unstyled Content (FOUC) in Firefox 3.5+

We've reached the end of our tether here trying to overcome a nasty and intermittent FOUC in Firefox 3.5.x+ for a new release we're working on. We've tried: Disabling Javascript in FF Using Quirks mode rendering by removing the DOCTYPE Moving from @import for additional CSS to <link> Switching concatenation on and off Removing CSS fil...

looking for a more comprehensive Javascript onload event

I am developing a script to avoid Flashes Of Un-styled Content by hiding the body element until its contents have fully loaded. This is designed as a plugin for pages rich in disparate and often weighty resources that gradually populate the page, make DOM manipulations etc, leaving the user with a page that is displayed before it is fin...