L??ie Techie said:
One thing I've noticed, Gecko tends to load the entire table before
displaying any of the cells, whereas IE displays cells as the document is
parsed, changing cell widths and / or heights as necessary.
Other than that, I don't know why Gecko would be slower than IE.
BTW, you should probably state which version of Netscape you are comparing
with which version of IE.
La'ie Techie
You may be able to compensate for the slow rendering of large tables in
Netscape 7+/Gecko-based browsers using some of the tweaks available at <url:
http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/tweaks/firefoxtweak/4.html />.
Specifically: user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
However, any such fix will only affect your own PC, it is unlikely you will be
able to convince all of your audience using Gecko-based browsers to make this
change in their own environment.
Disclaimer: the only changes I have made as shown on the URL above are:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
They have improved browsing performance for me in Gecko-based browsers, your
experience may differ.
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