If you’re looking at this page in Safari 1.3 and perhaps 2.0, chances are you saw, while the page was loading, a poorly formatted page with black text. Then, something finished loading and the page suddenly fell into place with nice white text and the proper layout.
That’s called the Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) and it’s a CSS display glitch. I can’t find any way to stop it.
However, it’s a big Internet with lots of smart people in it. if you have any solutions or ideas to try, please let me know.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)