Posted by The alMIGHTY N on 05/26/06 17:48

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. I'm a proponent of doing
what works for the particular case, but I was interested in finding out
more about something he said. He claims that tables render much faster
than DIVs which sounded odd to me, considering how many people say that
DIVs render much faster than tables.

Is there any research that shows one being faster than the other (or,
for that matter, neither really being signficantly faster)? Is
rendering speed linked more to the size and complexity of the page?

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