My $0.02: I would contend that this is more than perception. I would rather have a page immediately show and then redraw a couple of times, even if it is overall slower. I can get an idea of what I'm looking at, visually scan for what interests me, and then start reading. If I wait ten seconds with my hands poised over the keys, only to discover I need to click through and the page is bogus, it just adds frustration.
Another way of putting this: even if IE takes longer to completely render the page, I can USE the page faster under IE than Mozilla. -Jim On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 16:20:58 -0800, tradervik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I checked this out on my high powered PC at work (1Ghz, 512 Mb, NT) and >noticed >something interesting: > >Total page re-display time for IE and Moz seems about the same (about a >second). >Moz may even be a little bit faster. However, when you press >forward/back in IE, the >page immediately changes whereas, in Moz, the page does not change >immediately. >In IE, some time is then spent redrawing. In Moz, when the page does >change, it >appears all at once. > >
