{"id":116753,"date":"2017-04-12T10:57:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T08:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=116753"},"modified":"2017-04-12T10:58:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T08:58:49","slug":"google-chrome-fixes-its-annoying-page-jumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/116753-google-chrome-fixes-its-annoying-page-jumps","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome fixes its annoying page jumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chromium.org\/2017\/04\/scroll-anchoring-for-web-developers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google is taking<\/strong><\/a> aim at annoying page jumps, which typically happen when a website inserts an image or other content above the visible area, pushing down what\u2019s on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest Chrome update, Google is introducing scroll anchoring, which locks the content you\u2019re currently looking at to the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScroll anchoring is one of our favorite kinds of features \u2013 those that shine when no one notices them,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we\u2019re preventing an average of almost three jumps per pageview, and we\u2019re still getting better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google has provided a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chromium.org\/2017\/04\/scroll-anchoring-for-web-developers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>technical guide<\/strong><\/a> for web developers who want to understand how it works and what it means for websites.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Fr-i4dicCQ\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/206750-google-chrome-fixes-page-jumps.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/206254-google-fights-fake-news-with-fact-check-label.html\">Google fights fake news with Fact Check label<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is taking aim at annoying page jumps, which typically happen when a website inserts an image or other content above the visible area, pushing down what\u2019s on the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":99144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1521,475,24141],"class_list":["post-116753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-browser","tag-bug","tag-google-chrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}