On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > 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.
Right, and this is all client driven. Different versions of different browsers will all decide how to respond to this differently. Compounding things, the'll also respond differently based on the HTML encoding: on a modern browser, with strict XHTML, it *might* be possible to get better results (because maybe the browser will try to assume that the syntax is valid, and so it can start rendering early), but no guarantees there. Some possible ways out, maybe: * break up the data into 100-row table chunks * see if maybe pseudo-tables with CSS could work (???) * skip the table and offer a CSV / XLS download link -- Chris Devers _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
