Window Resize Algorithm

[Matt Jones]

Hi,
I am a big fan of the w3c website, and the various specifications they provide. However, I have come to dislike mozilla's percieved performance on window resizing (solid not wire) while viewing large documents such as these (ie - html spec). Not to bring into the mix the dreaded MSIE, but it seems to not have quite such poor performance in this area. I have played around with both, and my understanding is that mozilla resizes the entire document (rerendering it for each change in size), while MSIE seems to ignore all document resizing below the current point in the docuemnt while the window resize occurs. So, MSIE's percieved performance only drops to the level of mozilla's when viewing the last sections of a docuemnt.

My proposed fix would actually surpass the performance of MSIE, however, it requires a leap of fail where the developer would have to assume (cringe) that the screen size could never be bigger than XbyY and thusly we could assume Z amount of content above/below the current viewable area would be needed. Given that assumption we would only resize that much content while the windows is being resized and the would redraw all content when the resize is complete. While I am a developer, I am not experienced with 2D layout, and so, if my logic is flawed, please let me know.

-Thanks
Matt