Netscape slow to read php-generated html

[kumar909]

Hi.
I read through all 10 pages of the netscape issues posted in this forum but didn't see anything related to this.

problem: in Nescape 6.1 my php pages (which have a lot of included pages, functions, database retrievals, etc) appear as if they are taking shape during loading time. For example, the netscape status bar (poor little thing, trying so hard) says it takes about 6 seconds to load all the html. while it is loading, I can my nested tables aligning themselves! The problem is that their final resting places disturb some of the images and everything looks messed up. In IE everything loads fine, in about 1.5 seconds, and nothing moves.

I know this isn't an html formatting issue because I've taken the php-generated html, copied and pasted it into a static html document, and it loads fine in Netscape 6.1! The only thing I can imagine causing this problem is the time it takes for Netscape to fetch the html from the php parser... has anyone seen this happen? know of a fix?

[Anon]

Don't know if this is it, but Netscape's old problem was that it refused to load HTML concurrently, a big indicator was when it loaded a Java applet, everything stopped until the applet was loaded, bad news if its big.

Could be the problem, not sure.

Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Jim

[Anon]

It's an HTML parsing issue - not your code. Netscape doesn't render nested tables quickly and never has. IE, horrid little standards shreading beast that it might be, does have a much faster table rendering algorithm.