Posted by Andy Dingley on 11/07/07 23:53

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 12:05:05 -0600, richard <uandme@spam.not> wrote:

>I've been working on a massive project for several months. Basically it is
>all primarily text with the display showing up in table format.
>
>Basically, one table would show the 3 primary items. Then the second table
>would show a calendar, with 3 rows of info. The calendar would be a simple
>weekly report thing. Not daily.

How many "blocks" do you need to show in the second table _at_one_time_?

If this is a lot, maybe because you need to print it in one section,
then just generate the tables easily with PHP or whatever and output
them as a very long piece of HTML. Make sure it's well-formed and valid
HTML, where each <table> itself is quite short. If you do that, it'll
still be "reasonably" quick to download and render, even for a large
amount of data. If a <table> stretches over the whole of a very long
page, then it can be slow to load.

If you only ever ned to show one "block" at a time, then investigate
AJAX.

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