Posted by winstontuck on 02/23/07 06:16

On Feb 23, 6:02 am, Nikita the Spider <NikitaTheSpi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> In article <1172169221.741869.267...@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>
> winstont...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I generate html reports. Is there a limit to the file size that IE or
> > Firefox can handle being send to then from my webserver application.
>
> The largest HTML file I've opened with Firefox was 22M (all HTML, no
> images); I suspect it can handle larger but I really don't know. That
> said, the technical limit of these browsers is probably higher than the
> *practical* limit. Do you think your users want to open gigantic HTML
> files that eat up all of the memory in the computer and tax the browser
> so much that scrolling around in them is like wading through taffy? If
> it stresses the browser, it will probably also annoy your users.
>
> If you have reports that are potentially so large I encourage you to
> consider breaking them up into more manageable chunks.
>
> Sorry for not answering your question directly. =)
>
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> Philiphttp://NikitaTheSpider.com/
> Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more

Thank you, your answer is spot on and I agree 100%.

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