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Posted by William Hughes on 01/24/07 21:54
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:14:39 -0700, in alt.html Jim Moe
<jmm-list.AXSPAMGN@sohnen-moe.com> wrote:
>William Hughes wrote:
>> What is the consensus about an acceptable maximum limit on HTML file
>> sizes or number of screens per page?
>>
>> I have some files at http://home.grandecom.net/~cvproj/carrier.htm
>> that are approaching 175k+, or fill several screens - mostly with
>> tabular data. All of these pages are subject to expansion as I develop
>> the site.
>>
> A rule of thumb is to keep the file size to about 50KB.
OK, I can deal with that...
> Although less of
>an issue these days, there are still a lot of people with 10KB/sec
>(56Kbit/sec) dialup connections. These means that the page would load in
>about 5 seconds, assuming no other large documents like images.
Luddites. :)
> If your page is mostly one giant table, an alternate method is to break
>the table into a set of smaller tables. The browser can then display the
>completed tables while continuing to download the rest of the page.
This I have done; it also makes the page scroll a bit smoother - not
so jerky. In general, each "section" of the tabular data is a single
table - each ship or class in the Other Ships section, each ten years
in the Timeline, and each name in the Carrier Names, frex.
Thanks, Jim.
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William Hughes, San Antonio, Texas: cvproj@grandecom.net
The Carrier Project: http://home.grandecom.net/~cvproj/carrier.htm
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