[thelist] netscape 4 nested tables - YAY!

[Denis, David]

OK well then here's a question, I put the page up here:
http://www.davedenis.com/ns4/home3.html

Now, in NS4 it stalls after a second, and then takes about 12 seconds to
load (page doesn't look proper yet).  This isn't a bandwidth issue, try it
in IE.  Or better yet save it locally in IE and then load it in NS4 and it
still stalls.  The deepest nesting there is 4 levels (I have borders turned
on).  Any thoughts?  Maybe it's not a nesting issue but something else?  I
thought I had it isolated to nested tables though, unfortunately I didn't do
this page in the first place.

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: rudy [mailto:r937 at interlog.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:58 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] netscape 4 nested tables - YAY!


> What I've found is that if you can stay out of going 4 tables *deep*
> like you've outlined above, your pretty safe.

4 is definitely safe

i've gone down 6, and i think you can go 8 safely

try it for yourself, go visit the "massively nested table stress test"
in your browser of choice and see if you notice a rendering
delay as you resize the window (the tables are liquid)

  http://mozilla.org/newlayout/testcases/stress/test6.html

<tip type="html table complexity">
always choose to nest an additional table level
rather than resort to complex colspans and rowspans
</tip>

of course, if you have to nest tables more than 2 or 3 deep,
perhaps you need to re-think the design, eh

;o)


rudy


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