Posted by Martin Jay on 05/26/06 23:05

In message <1148654926.962797.266830@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, The
alMIGHTY N <natlee75@yahoo.com> writes
>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?

I don't know if there is any research.

Modern day computers are fast, and I doubt many people would notice any
difference between the rendering of tables and DIVs.

Like for like, IMO a page made of DIVs would probably have a smaller
size and download quicker. And would probably render quicker because
the browser doesn't have to do so much hard work making table and
contents fit each other.

I use a fairly slow 450mhz Windows Me during development. I can usually
tell whether a page is table or DIV based by the speed and way it
renders. To me tables seem slower.
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