Website layouts "jumping"

As ads are being loaded the text often jumps around as the images are 
being placed as the page is being loaded. Is there any way of stopping 
this? I think Internet Explorer used to be able to do that. It loads the 
basic finalized layout, then the images are filled in as the available 
bandwith allows.  It means you start reading right away then enjoy the 
images during or after you finished reading the article.  Much smarter.  

Op Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:01:09 +0100 schreef The New guy  
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> As ads are being loaded the text often jumps around as the images are
> being placed as the page is being loaded. Is there any way of stopping
> this? I think Internet Explorer used to be able to do that. It loads the
> basic finalized layout, then the images are filled in as the available
> bandwith allows.  It means you start reading right away then enjoy the
> images during or after you finished reading the article.  Much smarter.

Opera also does this - but this only works when the page author includes  
the necessary width and height attributes for images and plugins etc.

> I would love to be able to do this in Opera. Is it possible?

You can experiment with the refresh rate, which is how long Opera waits  
before refreshing the display while data is still coming in. See  
Preferences > Advanced > Browsing

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                                                    Rijk van Geijtenbeek
                                  Opera Software ASA, Documentation & QA

> > I would love to be able to do this in Opera. Is it possible?
> 
> You can experiment with the refresh rate, which is how long Opera waits  
> before refreshing the display while data is still coming in. See  
> Preferences > Advanced > Browsing