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Posted by Andy Dingley on 05/27/06 02:49
On 26 May 2006 07:48:47 -0700, "The alMIGHTY N" <natlee75@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>We are redesigning our website and my manager and I engaged in a debate
>which included, among other things, whether to stick with tables for
>structuring the website or use more DIV tags.
Agree with him. He's obviously so far from having any sort of Clue that
there's just no point in arguing.
>He claims that tables render much faster than DIVs
I have no idea, and I care even less. Rendering is effectively
"instant", so just how instant it is is irrelevant.
There are two sorts of significant variation you do see in rendering.
One is an inability to render a partly downloaded page, until the whole
thing has arrived. This was mainly an issue for slow connections and
it's also made much worse by using <table>s. Older browsers often didn't
render a table until they received the closing tag for it.
The second issue is when a layout re-flows after more content appears.
This is typically seen with columns and absolute positioning, or when
images influece element positioning but didn't have their sizes set in
the HTML. If you have static banner or logo images, it's worth setting
their size in the HTML: code.
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