Mark Twain wrote:
I noticed another thing today, kind of hard not to.
I opened a story about the elections and had a couple
of other tabs open at the time and it froze everything
so that I had to open device manager and close all the
tabs.

They definitely have done something to make the site
user unfriendly. Also I get tired of reading the same
news day after day but that's all sites nowadays but
Yahoo sure has more than its share of negative stories.

Robert


The Yahoo site uses scrolling technology.

As you scroll down the page, old articles are pulled in.
The intention, is to make the page look "infinitely long".

As this is happening, the Flash windows are also affected.
As you scroll down, there is a need to load new Flash windows.
Now, a smart design, would be to unload and disable the
previous Flash windows further up the page (the ones you can
no longer see). This would conserve resources.

Off to the right hand side, new advertising resources
(animated GIF or Flash) are added too.

I've seen a few other websites that use this technique.
The web page does not load (entirely) on invocation.
As you scroll down, more content is pulled up from the
archives. The material at the top of the page is
fresh. But if you scroll down long enough, you'll hit
some pretty old material (a first-person story about
Noah's Ark perhaps) :-)

Paul