Good idea, but interruptible reflow

   <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83732>

on cases like this probably takes a back seat to page load and 
user-interface performance, at this point.

chris

Andy Sy wrote:

> Try resizing Mozilla 0.9.3 ( Gecko/20010801 ) with the mysql manual loaded
> (a 2MB HTML file) and it will block the GUI for a considerable amount of
> time (this is under Windows 2000 on a DUAL CPU machine!).  While modifying
> the layout engine to do a 'lazy', threaded kind of rearranging of the HTML
> elements like IE does may be a major change, I believe this is a very
> important feature. (I wonder how KHTML - which is also highly regarded -
> fares in such a case.)


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