Just doing some _very_ cursory testing, it appears that the macEmbed
harness (a powerplant app that embeds mozilla) is faster at layout out
pages than mozilla navigator. Here's what I see with two equivalent
debug builds (same tree):
- first, I commented out the throbber in macEmbed, which is an animated
gif using ImageLib. In macEmbed, loading cnn.com locks the machine for 3
seconds (this is a debug build) but then the entire page displays in one
shot -- images and all. At this point it's done.
- with mozilla, it locks up for the same 3 seconds, but what displays is
just the webpage text, the images have yet to load. The images then
trickle in over the next 5 seconds.
- then i put the throbber back into macEmbed, and the images all loaded
more slowly (they weren't there at the initial blit of the page, but
finished loading more quickly).
Why are images loading so slowly? It seems that animated gifs of any
kind _really_ hurt our performance, especially page loads.
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Mike Pinkerton
Mac Browser Weenie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.netscape.com/pinkerton
