On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 02:49:20PM +0000, Jim Nagel wrote: > I've wondered for a long time what it is about Wikipedia's layout > (or something) that makes its pages so slow to render in Netsurf, > compared to the time to render the same page in Firefox or Chrome. > > (Netsurf #891 here at the moment, but the wondering goes back a lot > further; running on RiscPC or Iyonix. Firefox or Chrome on XP.)
My initial thought is probably that they're typically large pieces of HTML and CSS, and your PC is probably an order of magnatude faster than your RISC OS machines. (Plus, Wikipedia, if I recall correctly, uses large images with CSS clipping. This is a big performance win if you have a disc cache, which we don't, and Firefox/Chrome do.) B.
