Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset?

2008-07-15 Thread ja...@nova-sw.com
hristopher Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: boston-pm@mail.pm.org Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset? Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:43:11 -0400 > Thanks Ben, great answer. > > The "modern" Web2.0 version is to render the entire blank > tabl

Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset?

2008-07-15 Thread Ben Tilly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:52:45AM -0700, Ben Tilly wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Christopher Schmidt >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > For the record, the problem you're trying to solve is probably som

Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset?

2008-07-15 Thread Ricker, William
Thanks Ben, great answer. The "modern" Web2.0 version is to render the entire blank table and rest of page as the first request and then use JavaScript to fill in each cell. This might not answer the original post's problem, since it requires more than just format change serverside, but doesn't

Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset?

2008-07-15 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:52:45AM -0700, Ben Tilly wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Christopher Schmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the record, the problem you're trying to solve is probably something > > like 'force rendering of partially complete HTML' or something along > > th

Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset?

2008-07-15 Thread Ben Tilly
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher, > Thanks for the reply. At one point a some years ago I > believe if you defined the column widths of the table in the > top row of cells browsers would render it as received since > they didn't need to wa

Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset?

2008-07-15 Thread ja...@nova-sw.com
need. Jim - Original Message Follows - From: Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: boston-pm@mail.pm.org, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset? Date: Tue, 15 J

Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset?

2008-07-15 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:31:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Boston Mongers, I have a perl app sending a large data set (> 1000 > > lines rendered) out thru apache and mod perl. I want to force the > > browser to begin rendering the d

Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset?

2008-07-15 Thread ja...@nova-sw.com
odern browsers no longer do this? Jim - Original Message Follows - From: Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: boston-pm@mail.pm.org Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset? Date: Tue, 15 Ju

Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset?

2008-07-15 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:31:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Boston Mongers, > I have a perl app sending a large data set (> 1000 lines > rendered) out thru apache and mod perl. I want to force the > browser to begin rendering the data table before receiving > the last row so that the user

[Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset?

2008-07-15 Thread ja...@nova-sw.com
Boston Mongers, I have a perl app sending a large data set (> 1000 lines rendered) out thru apache and mod perl. I want to force the browser to begin rendering the data table before receiving the last row so that the user doesn't have to wait. HTTP books and Googling seem to turn up snippets of rel