[thelist] netscape 4 nested tables - YAY!

Morkeleb morkeleb at dragonshadows.net
Wed Sep 26 09:56:01 CDT 2001


Hi! New guy here!

Correct me if I"m wrong, but isn't there an issue of Netscape 4.xx flavors
not fully supporting W3C 4?

I see in the header that the code declares:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

Also, I've loaded it both in IE and Mozilla.  Mozilla is kind enough to tell
me that it loads in 9.18 seconds and it doesn't hang except at the very
beginning before anything appears on the screen.  I'd have to think that the
stall on this page is a limitation of the browser, rather than anything to
do with the code.

Just my two-cents. :)

Morkeleb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Denis, David" <DDenis at inlumen.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 7:49 AM
Subject: RE: [thelist] netscape 4 nested tables - YAY!


> 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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