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| From | Riddle |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Browser Test - Progressive Rendering |
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| Date | 13 February 2005 22:10 |
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[Re: browser speed tests]
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One thing I do not take into account here (...) is progressive
rendering. For example, with Opera 6, the table was laid out faster,
but nothing was displayed until the entire table was complete. (...)
this can make overall browsing speed significantly faster.
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Firefox 1.0 (for Windows -> 100% sure - I use it and simply know it)
also has this function. Regards, great test and preparation to it ..
so many thing considered. Great job! :-) I'll spread the link to my
friends (both - Opera's and Firefox's users).
| From | Me |
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| To | Riddle |
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| Subject | Re: Browser Test - Progressive Rendering |
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| Date | 14 February 2005 10:35 |
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Indeed, progressive rendering is something most 5th generation browsers
have. Safari still seems to do a lot of offscreen buffering, but all of
them will use progressive rendering to some extent. The example was merely
to highlight the changes between the older 4th generation browsers and
newer 5th generation ones, and how that affects speed, even though it is
not really possible to test it. Since Opera is the only [major] browser listed to
have actually been tested in both its old and new forms, that was the
example I gave (NS4 and NS6+ are completely different browsers, so these
are not a good enough example).
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/