Posts by Miguel Vieira

NASA makes purrrr-fect deep space transmission of cat vid

To meow where no cat has meowed before!

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

2024 will see the triumphant return of CRT monitors.

Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase

Vroom Vroom Chroom Chroom

Absolute mad lad renders Doom in teletext

Mandatory - what a time to be alive!

Singapore branches out onto internet of trees

Re: It solves a thorny philosophical issue too

I hope the alarm for a tree tilting in their office is: TIMBEEEEEEEEEER!

What happened to the site?

Re: What happened to the site?

Hiya, frontend developer for ElReg here.

Had to move away from 'display:none' technique as it was disabling a CSS animation for the menu expand/collapse, I've instead used 'visibility:hidden' which hopefully has the same effect for you!

Cheers

Re: What happened to the site?

Hiya, frontend developer for ElReg here.

Apologies, we've introduced a masthead change which wasn't properly tested with a screen reader with that specific use case in mind.

We had styled our menu/nav to be "tucked away" until it's expanded by clicking on a button on the masthead, the problem is it wasn't really "tucked away" for screen readers as it still had a 'display:block' CSS value, so a screen reader would have read through it. It's now using a 'display:none' CSS value.

I've tested this fix with the Mac's VoiceOver, let me know if it's fixed for you as well!

Please bring back the headings.

Hi,

Thanks for reporting on this. We've pushed a few changes that should make things a bit clearer, listing them here for you:

- add 'Other stories you might like' header to denote start of bottom stories list

- add 'Similar topics' header to denote the tags list

- ignore the 'MORE' entry on the 'Similar topics' list

- comments link update to describe the action/link and continues to state the amount of comments, if any.

Let us know if these are working for you.

The Outer Worlds: Ever wished Fallout 4 was more like New Vegas? Here ya go... in spaaace

Re: Hey...

Let me mark it on your map.

New Format

Re: New Format

It's not a redesign.

We've rolled out an A/B test for that front page unit, hence some users might see a different variation for the duration of the A/B test.

Thank you for your feedback!

Just put the image over our username.

Re: Just put the image over our username.

The post text will now wrap around the comment-icon image on the right which means the post content will stretch to 'fullwidth' beneath the image.

Along with that we've also done a few margins and sizes tweaks to make better usage of the horizontal space for Forum posts, this then means you'll be able to see more of a Forum post content in a viewport (specially in the case of mobile) than you used to.

The Register's 2018 homepage redesign: What's going on now?

Agreed, the 'Top Stories' unit has now a more compact look to it, we've dropped the top image for smaller devices and reduced font-sizes and margins, the result being you should now see in the vast majority of mobile devices, at least, the headline for the first Top Story without the need for scrolling.

On a technical note, we're looking into optimising that image markup, as right now we're simply hiding it with CSS 'display:none' which doesn't prevent the browser from loading the image.

But wheels are being spun and whips are being lashed to deliver a solution where the image is not loaded at all for those devices where it's not meant to be shown.

We have a few other changes in mind to "clear up" some space to fit actual article content into those mobile devices as well which we'll be addressing through the course of the week.

Thank you for the feedback so far.

You wanna be an alpha... tester of The Register's redesign? Step this way

Re: Page scroll stuttering

The new homepage "loading" behaviour follows a mobile-first approach.

A particular concern was how the new behaviour would affect users bandwidth and overall page loading time. If ALL the images are loaded in the raw HTML we are:

a) slowing the page load;

b) forcing users to download images that they may never see (specially for the articles further down the page), or in the case of mobile devices matching certain breakpoints, they would load an image that we would later HIDE in the CSS as don't want the image to show on those small devices this then means the image would be loaded as it was part of the document but would be entirely useless to the user.

To avoid this wastage of bandwidth (and avoid the slow page load) we opted for a lazy-load solution via JS, where images are not requested UNTIL the time a user has "shown intent" of seeing them, this is done via a JS function which determines said intent based on the users scrolling behaviour, the parameters for WHEN to trigger a given row articles image request are something we're still fiddling with.

This lazy-load technique means that the raw HTML can not contain the article images as doing so would defeat the purpose of the lazy-load enhancement (and bandwidth saver) and as a result users with JS disabled get no images on the majority of the articles.

If the page scroll is stuttering for you, my guess is that you're scrolling "too fast" OR experiencing poor network conditions. If you can provide us with your device details, we'll try to replicate the stuttering.

See https://www.theregister.co.uk/Page/problem.html

MOST READ updated

Thanks for the feedback so far.

The 'MOST READ' unit style has been updated and it should be easier to understand its delimitation and which articles it agglomerates.

Other raised concerns in this comment section are being considered internally and we'll be addressing the identified issues.