Odd window jump

[RavensFan]

I noticed something odd in the last couple days when typing a message reply.  (And it just did it just now while typing this new message.)  The edit window will jump down a bit and then jump back up.

It seems that an extra blank line suddenly appears on the web page just above the title that says Body and lasts for perhaps a half second.  It is a little annoying to see the screen jump while you are typing.  Has anyone else seen this?  Right now I am using IE8 on Windows Vista.  This has happened about 5 or 6 times just while typing this particular message.

(One other odd think was that when I went to create this new message, the window first appeared saying I had some unsaved changes from March 25.  I decided to load them and confirmed there was text from a message I would have typed around that time.  Why would the forum tell my I have saved changes from a message from 3 months ago?)

Upon closer inspection, it looks like is happening when the autosaved time is being updated on the screen which is on the same line as the "Body" title.

[Laura F.]

Hi Ravens Fan,

I tried this in IE8 (compatibility on and off) and FF3 as well and didn't get the same behavior. I see the Autosave text appear, but it appears on the same line as the "Body" heading.  Is it still happening today? I know that we got a few updates recently.

Thanks,

Laura

[RayFarmer]

I have seen this today, using IE7

[RavensFan]

Yes.  I have seen it today.

[Ben]

Yes it is was jumping for me yesterday.

I go to click on a line and the jump put the cursor at the line above/below.

Ben

As I was about to hit the post I noticed agin this AM so I added this line and it jumped again while typing this line.

As i moved my cursor out of the text editing window (that I have sized up from the default) it did it again.

Again moving my cursor in/out of text window may seem to trigger it, or maybe sliding over the resize handle on the bottom left.

Eitiher that or it is a timing thing (could my privacy filter be spying on what I type?

maybe it is a time thing after a new line (CR)?

10 seconds after a new line

20 seconds after new line

22 seconds after new line

25 secionds

Got another but did not add new line and no new jump.

Sure is looking like 30 second after new line.

Got antoher but watching the task manager I saw an antivirus thing jump to the top of CPU useage

Again as above.

I am done testing since there seems to be a pattern.

Ben

[Laura F.]

Ben - which browser were you testing in? IE8?

Thanks,

Laura

[Ben]

IE 8 XP

AVG Internet Security Buisnnes Edition 2011

NO I am not allowed to shut it off.

Ben

[Laura F.]

Ravens Fan / Ben -

I still haven't reproduced this. Are you still seeing it? Does it happen with every post?  From Ben's description it sounded like maybe not.

Thanks,

Laura

[RavensFan]

It was happening on every post for me.  And I think the timing of about twice per minute that Ben had mentioned seemed like the frequency I was seeing.

I hadn't been on the forums much today to confirm.

But now that I've typed this message, I did see it occur again when the autosave time went from 3:13 to 3:14 pm.  And it did it once again and it still said 3:14pm.

And now when it jumped to 3:15 pm.

I think I installed Jing on my home PC.  Perhaps what I can do is try to use that  (another 3:15 pm jump right now) to see if it captures it.  (Jump at 3:16 pm).  Hopefully I'll have a chance to play around with it tonight.

(So a total of 5 or 6 jumps in the 3 minutes I was writing this.)

[Laura F.]

I wouldn't bother capturing it at this point. I was just curious if it was something that was persistent or just happened on a single day.  I'll take a shot at reproducing but either way I will report the issue.

Thanks & have a good holiday!

Laura