On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:52:45AM -0700, Ben Tilly wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Christopher Schmidt >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > 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.) >> >> I'm sorry but this is entirely wrong if the problem is the time to >> generate his document. > > But that's not the problem he described. He said "I want to render > before the end of the data is received." That is not an HTTP problem, it > is an HTML problem.
Actually his stated problem was that the user has to wait and he wants to cut back on that waiting. His proposed solution was making the browser render right away. That will help, but we should not assume that it solves his real problem, which is that users have to wait. Furthermore it is important not to block his thinking away from where he might have to go. He may need to go this route to solve his real problem. But he's less likely to get there if he believes an expert who told him not to bother thinking about it. > I think that it is perfectly possible that there will be problems with > the webserver delivering output to the client before the client has been > entirely generated. Some tools make this harder than others. It is > possible that the tool in use here makes it hard -- or it's possible > that that problem has already been solved. In any case, the problem > description was narrow, and I addressed the problem description. I understand why you did that. But I think it important that you not do that, and instead let him know that he may have a combination of problems to solve to get the result that he wants. In any case the point is now moot since I let him know that that might be an issue, and gave him some pointers on what he'll have to look at if it is. Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
