Thanks for the replies: the code snippets are never going to be more than 100 lines on a single page. I've actually just written a (very basic, not robust at all I think) MooTools regex-based C syntax highlighter (I will put it up so somewhere at some point maybe), and I don't even see a flash of the un-highlighted code (in Safari/Firefox) for a piece of code 100 lines long.
I can see the benefits of doing it server side, especially for larger codes though. (And of course there is the whole dependence of presentation on Javascript which I'm not such a fan of come to think of it). Michal. On Nov 19, 11:55 am, hellspawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What other js do you have in that page? - I mean what load is put on > the browser ? > How big the snippet will be? - experiment with 5k-500k or more > That will be reflected in user's experience > > If he needs to wait for the js 10 seconds to make the pretty code..... > > So I think the user's experience should be the one that makes you > decide :)
