2005/12/14, kenny heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've heard talk about how much faster css is at rendering pages than > table layouts, but I've never seen the proof (actual statistics). I > was wondering if anyone knew of a study on this.
I think the major difference is that tables are usually not rendered incrementally. Incremental rendering of tables is achieved using the WIDTH attribute on the TABLE element and COL elements. Then again, the COL element is rarely used in table layouts. The use of the fixed table layout algorithm may speed up page rendering. But with this algorithm every flexibility is lost. In my opinion it should be used with great care. More detailed information is available from the HTML 4.01 Recommendation about tables at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.1 and in Appendix B of said Recommendation, covering, amongst others, performance issues: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#notes-tables Cheers, -- Jens Brueckmann http://www.yalf.de ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
