When i first discovered Cocoon about a year ago, i was amazed at the extremely poor performance of the xml.apache.org website. It seemed incongruous that Cocoon could be so amazing, yet the website was so slow. Then i realised that the site was not being served by Cocoon. So it must be the usability of the static HTML pages at fault.
We need to rectify this before release. The web pages loading needs to be snappy, to give the user a feeling of speed, power, and versatility that Cocoon can provide. Certain pages are a major problem. There are some bandages that we can apply to get us through the next release - i expect that a total rewrite of the document2html.xsl stylesheet is beyond scope for the upcoming release. Many pages are extremely slow to render, especially with Netscape. Perhaps this is because every page is constructed with complex nested tables. Two documents in particular make heavy use of images. tutorial.xml "How to create Web Applications" and concepts/index.html "Understanding Cocoon" If we use the height and width attributes for the figure elements then the browser can allocate the screen space and so can get on with rendering the text of the page. Then the images can download in their own time. I added patches today to fix this aspect. Does anyone see any other tweaks that can be applied to improve the website performance? David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
