[thelist] OS Limitations affecting browsers....
Anthony Baratta
Tony at IdeaSystems.com
Wed Sep 13 14:36:31 CDT 2000
FYI....
I've been debugging a table problem with Netscape and IE. It appears that
Win9x can not handle tables with 550+ rows and minimal formatting and
structure. Here's an example row: (formated for email)
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#D2D2F0"> </td>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="center">
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
<SELECT NAME="files_status_32">
<OPTION SELECTED VALUE="">
<OPTION VALUE="a">No Exceptions
<OPTION VALUE="c">Make Corrections Noted
<OPTION VALUE="d">Amend and Resubmit
<OPTION VALUE="p">Pending
</SELECT>
</font>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="center">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="files_approval_32" VALUE="VTK-0465" SIZE=10
MAXLENGTH=50>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">08/21/2000</font>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">UD00138RB.pdf</font>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">No Exceptions</font>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Acrobat PDF</font>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">VTA </font>
</td>
<td bgcolor="#D2D2F0"> </td>
</tr>
As you can see its not "fancy". However, Win9x machines explode (Memory
errors, GPFs, resource allocation errors et.al. really nasty) when one of
our pages tries to show about 550 rows (the HTML file is about 400k). We
have implemented "paging" so that no more than 50 rows show at a time, but
we were building with "long" pages first to make sure everything was
working correctly.
WinNT and Win2000 (MAC and UNIX) do not have any display problems with
tables that large. sigh.
Again - you really shouldn't have tables this large trying to display - but
it does show the huge memory limitations inherit with Win9x. Make me wonder
how the damn thing runs at all.
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Anthony Baratta
President
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