Posted by richard on 11/08/07 04:12

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:53:01 +0000, Andy Dingley wrote:

> 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.

One of my other ideas is to go ahead and the table thing as above but use
<gasp> iframes. The first table would be on the main "index" page, then the
2nd table shows up on the iframe. Using only a handfull of pages and
anchors, paging would not be all that much of a problem.

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