Posted by axlq on 07/09/07 01:48

In article <1183937994.087635.39200@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
petersprc <petersprc@gmail.com> wrote:
>Setting table-layout to fixed and specifying column widths with <cols>
>can sometimes speed up incremental table rendering. Example:
>
>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533002.aspx#layout
>
>Removing or re-working nested tables might help also.

Getting rid of nested tables can help a great deal. I took over
a web development project where the original developer used an
authoring tool that relied 100% on tables, even for simple things
like drawing a border around the page. Tables were nested 7 deep at
times, just for positioning text! The pages now have a mixture of
CSS and tables for layout, and no more than 3 levels of tables exist
anywhere. It made a big difference in the load time of the page,
even though the actual number of bytes stayed about the same.

-A

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