[thelist] Complex Tables in Netscape

Hi James,

Netscape has been known to load complex nested tables verrrry slowly, or in
some cases, not at all.  :)  Only a couple things you can do:

1) Trim the fat.  Lose any extra nested elements that don't need to be
nested
2) ALWAYS specify height and width attributes for any images you use in
tables
3) Simplify, simplify, simplify...  Kinda like the first one.  How can you
change the overall layout of the table to make it less complex?

Good luck!

Seth

<tip type="Making your pages load faster">
Most of the big browsers will try to "guess" the area of the user's screen
that is going to be used for a page while the page is downloading.  To help
the browser render your pages faster, give it 'hints":

Use Width and Height attributes for images.  This is a good practice to
follow anyways.
Use Width and Height attributes for tables and cells and rows and columns
that will definitely be a fixed width/height.
Divide different parts of a page into their own, stand-alone tables.  MS
especially will render completed tables while the rest of the page
downloads.
</tip>

_____________________________
Seth Bienek
Independent Cold Fusion Developer
"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."

-----Original Message-----
From: James Raybould [mailto:James.Raybould@sabre.com]
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:12 PM
To: The List
Subject: [thelist] Complex Tables in Netscape


Although including the code in this email would be most beneficial, my
employer forbids me to do so.

Here is the situation, we have an HTML page which is laid out as a
table. Inside one of the cells in the table is a series of 3 calendar
months (very detailed tables).

The problem is that in IE the page loads fast, no problems - however,
when you try to load the page using Netscape 4, it takes about 30
seconds.  To complicate things, when you pull the calendar out, the page
loads quickly as does the set of calendars on their own.

Has anyone encountered this Netscape problem before and if so what was
the source of the problem? Any suggestions or thoughts would be
appreciated.

Thanks.
-Jimmy


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