Chris Young wrote > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:03:15 GMT, John Rickman Iyonix wrote:
>>> Does your design actually need it? Usually I detest it when I see it. :) >>> The performance penalty can affect e.g. Chrome/Firefox on modern PCs too, >>> although to a lesser extent. >> >> In this case, the design really does need it. What I want to keep at >> the top of the window is a lookup table which enables multiple >> interpretations of the content that follows. >> >> You can see what I am trying to do here:- >> >> http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/john/songs/songsaf.html >> >> If you don't play the guitar it probably won't make a lot of sense, >> but basically it enables a guitarist to play any of the songs in any >> key without use of a capo. >> >> The performance hit on the scroll is acceptable here because once you >> have found the song you want to play you don't have to scroll again >> until you want to change songs. > I would have opted for a server-side PHP script which shows the bit > that you want to keep static and the selected song only. > Not only would that solve the problem, it also reduces load times and > bandwidth requirements. > If you can't use PHP then you could generate all the pages off-line > and upload them as static HTML. Thanks for the suggestion Chris - it seems like a good way to go. At the moment I can't get PHP from my ISP, but I will try using PHP via WebJames on my RaspBerry Pi. If it is satisfactory I will need to pay another 3 pounds a month to upgrade my basic Orpheus Web service to the next level which supports PHP. -- John - http://mug.riscos.org/
