[jdjlist] RE: Long Report

[Andrew Harbourne-Thomas]

Title: [jdjlist] Long Report

Greg Had a similar issue a few years ago from memory part of the initial problems were to do with the size of the HTML file and complexity.  First step was to aggressively use CSS (and minimalism HTML) to reduce the file size as much as possible and keep the HTML structure as simple as possible.  Part of the problem appeared to be that IE had problems with such a large file due to the complexity of the report structure. (each data row had about 30 fields across 4/5 rows, each requiring headings, formatting etc).   On the specific 5.50 issues you mentioned, can’t say I’ve noticed such problems, could be a bug in IE.  It may be related to the timeout issue.  We also had a similar problem (though IE just timed out and not resubmitted) and the best way to work around this was to work our data (involved for us some caching of specific parts of the data) so that we sent it back continuously asap.  We played around with buffering to achieve reasonable or optimal performance but due to size it was still slow.   In the end, it appeared that the restructuring of the report (for HTML simplicity) and the maximal use of CSS had the most effect, even if the file size was still fairly huge (1-6mb).   Hope this helps, Andrew Professional Java Servlets 2.3 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/186100561X http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/186100561X   To change your membership options, refer to: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm