On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 02:34:44PM -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > Just a comment on this one. Netscape (and other browsers) do exactly that. > > However, if the image tags are not accompanied by "width" and "height" > > parameters, Netscape can not render the page until the image headers are > > downloaded and known. It would be really slow for it to re-render the page > > after every image, since it changes the page flow and table sizes, etc.. > > Hmmm... there's a good point there... ;-) > > But, are you positive that Netscape does that? I ask because of one of the > things > that nags me most in Netscape Mail: sometimes I receive a HTML e-mail w/ > images (for > instance, an info clipping of some kind) and, if I press 'stop' too soon (in > less > that, say, 30s) it seems to load only part of the text... ;-/
It seems to only "render" part of the text. That's a big difference from downloading it. Try this, create a page with 10 or so images without any size attributes in the image tags and load it into netscape. Then add correct size tags and you will see a huge difference. Ben
