Christopher, Thanks for the reply. At one point a some years ago I believe if you defined the column widths of the table in the top row of cells browsers would render it as received since they didn't need to wait to receive that last row to calculate column widths in such a case. Do modern browsers no longer do this?
Jim ----- Original Message Follows ----- From: Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Force browser rendering of a partial dataset? Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:01:16 -0400 > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:31:43AM -0500, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boston Mongers, > > I have a perl app sending a large data set (> 1000 lines > > rendered) out thru apache and mod perl. I want to force > > the browser to begin rendering the data table before > > receiving the last row so that the user doesn't have to > > wait. HTTP books and Googling seem to turn up snippets > > of related info here and there but I'd like to find a > > succint, precise summary of how to do this. Anyone know > > of one that you can point me to? > > If your data is in a single <table> element, you're > generally out of luck: Browsers tend to wait to render > tables until the entire table is available. > > For the record, the problem you're trying to solve is > probably something like 'force rendering of partially > complete HTML' or something along those lines. (The > problem is not strongly related to HTTP or anything else.) > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > Web Developer > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
