[thelist] netscape 4 nested tables - YAY!

[Steve Cook]

I posted a question about the same (or similar) problem recently. The best
advice I had was to go through the code and replace as much of the table
formatting as possible (widths, padding, colours etc) with CSS instead. If
you give each table cell a class tag and then use inline styles to define
very variable features (sizes for instance) you will a) reduce the amount of
code to load and b) speed up Netscape.

It's a bit of work, but I tried it and was hugely surprised - a page that
was taking almost 30 second in Netscape now opens in 5.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denis, David [mailto:DDenis at inlumen.com]
> Sent: den 26 september 2001 16:49
> To: 'thelist at lists.evolt.org'
> 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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