On Thursday 16 November 2000 15:47, you wrote:
> >Netscape loads the entire page before it displays it (afaik it even loads
> >the images before displaying). IE displays while loading, so that's why it
> >seems faster. However, if you for example click-right within the window in
> >NS, you get the menu immediately. In IE, you have to wait a sec before it
> >appears.
>
> Netscape also displays the pictures while loading if you include the
> 'width=xx height=yy' in the <IMG> tag. I had this problem in aamsx.org
> when the number of images in the menu increased. Including the width and
> height of the image makes Netscape reserve that space, so it can start
> displaying the page as soon as it finished loading the HTML source, even
> if there are tables.
I think Laurens means that IE (and Konqueror too) start to layout even before
the HTML source is finished loading. That means the browser doesn't have
enough info to calculate the definitive layout, so it guesses something and
starts layouting anyway. When more of the source is loaded, the document is
re-layouted using the actual sizes. That's why table widths can change on the
screen when IE is loading a document, that effect never occurs in Netscape.
Bye,
Maarten
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