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Re: Haylp! Why does NN take ages to load these tables?
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Date: 
Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:23:31 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Richard Franks writes:
Yup, removed the extra table and it still works at the same speed. I think
that the problem really is, (if you didn't guess) that it is
machine-generated, from an image splicing util that I'm writing in tcl/tk
partly as an exercise in learning HTML :) This probably accounds for most, if
not all of the evilness of the resulting HTML code.

From what you said, I think I'll get my finger out and implement my tables
better - atm the routine just splits each table into two new tables at
rollover image boundaries, whereas if it takes account of all image boundaries
it could generate tables with >2 columns and >2 rows.. meaning that for the
image, the table recursion depth would be about 3 or 4, instead of about.. 9
or 10!

Actually, it looks like you could do the exact same thing with just 1 table,
with about 7 columns and about 12 rows, and using:
<TD HEIGHT=____ WIDTH=_____ COLSPAN=___ ROWSPAN=_____><IMG SRC=_____></TD>
for each TD tag... of course if you're generating the HTML with tcl/tk, your
code needs to be smarter to figure out how exactly to cut the image up nicely
using only one table, but it CAN be done!

Perhaps learning some HTML before writing utils to blat it out would help too?
:)

Well, as always, one of the best ways to learn something is to jump right in!
:) (but having the O'Reilly book sure does help!)

DaveE



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