[wellylug] cgi question

[Grant McLean]

> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, David Zanetti wrote:
>>
>> Most browsers will display-as-you-load,
>
> Is this true for Mozilla? One of the biggest complaints I've heard
> recently about mozilla (by people who won't give up IE) is the claim
> that it doesn't display the page until it's completely loaded.

They may be referring to the behaviour of Netscape 4.  Even back then,
Netscape would build up the display progressively, with the caveat that
it would not display a table until it received the closing table tag.
In old-school (pre-CSS) designs the whole page was generally inside at
least one table so the result was you'd see nothing until the whole
thing loaded (unless the designer accounted for this by splitting up
the tables).

However Mozilla certainly doesn't have that problem.  It will reflow
tables as new data come in.  It has done this since pre 1.0 days so
thats a long time for people to bear a grudge :-)

By the way, in the original case of displaying the output from rsync,
one would probably use a Content-Type of text/plain and pretty much
any GUI browser would display that progressively (Lynx doesn't seem
to though).

Cheers
Grant