On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 09:08:10AM -0700, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Mohammed Hamed wrote:
>
> > I wonder why would it sometimes take the whole webpage to load or a large
>percentage of it before the browser displays it and sometimes the browser just
>displays whatever it has managed to load while keeping loading the rest of the page
>at the same time ?
> > what is the reason of the different behaviour ?
> > Is it just a browser behaviour or is there some directive to specify this ?
>
> One of the reasons is HTML layout. The browser cannot render HTML until all
> sizes on the viewable area are known. If, for example, a page has an image
> without explicit size specifications, the browser has to wait for that image
> to load to know the size and render appropriately.
Very important: tables. Tables can't be rendered until they're downloaded
completely _and_ the size of all images in it are known.
> Also, buffering on the server side (including CGIs) may affect the
> "presentation" behavior.
Greetz, Peter.
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