Lars Aronsson wrote:

> Should I use divs instead of tables?  

You could and it would avoid the flak from one cranky bug submitter. 
I'm not so sure that tables that are *not* nested are significantly more 
efficient than equivalent divs.  I can see that under certain 
circumstances, it would appear that nested divs would be similar in 
performance to nested tables - both require the browser to load the 
entire pack of info to the end of the outermost enclosing element before 
they can render.

I've used both tables and divs for bar charts and can't notice a 
performance difference.  I haven't seen any benchmarks nor have I run 
any - I'd be interested in seeing if these assumptions of mine are valid 
or if there are other factors that I haven't considered.

> I guess SVG would be the best, but can SVG images be 
> generated inline from a template?

SVG would be interesting if it could be directly rendered.  Not so great 
if it has to be converted to png first (except that it's server load 
instead of browser load).

Mike


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