[thelist] Not declaring image dimensions

Mike evolt at muinar.com
Mon May 17 10:57:21 CDT 2004


At 16:34 17.05.2004 +0100, you wrote:
>On 17 May 2004, at 16:27, Clive R Sweeney wrote:
>
>>and that the page display will change as the images load?
>
>Certainly. Many browsers keep rendering using height 0, width 0 for the 
>image dimensions, then go back and rerender the past stuff. This can be 
>very irritating (scroll to the point you want to read, earlier image 
>finishes loading, page content jumps down 500 pixels).

IMHO that's the biggest downside of it. The only interactive phone book
for a while here in Switzerland was built with nested tables and many gifs.
Until *everything* finally was rendered, these damn input fields jumped
around like #!@$ö§      :)

Mike

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