How do most browsers load files?

[telicalbook]

I have a 500K mostly text html file and I'm wondering if most
browsers will load it and display it in parts or will waitl till the
whole file is displayed until it loads.

Thanks for your help.



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[Murray]

It will be fetched in little parcels. Depending on the markup used it may
be displayed or it may not.

500K is ohh 12 times heavier than the target weight for a page, you know?

 

[telicalbook]

Ok, I will break it up in sections. Thanks.

 

[fido]

It will be fetched in little parcels. Depending on the markup used it may
be displayed or it may not.

500K is ohh 12 times heavier than the target weight for a page, you know?

Provided there is something on the screen to be read, the user is
allowed to start reading as soon as the text begins to appear.

With half a meg of text, and we must assume that the text is of
interest to the reader, he is going to be sitting there reading for
quite a long time anyway, so the usual "rules" don't really apply.

Having said that, this would be a splendid opportunity to break the
"page" down into a number of pages, something you could not easily
achieve within the restrictions of a printed document.

fido

 

[Ratatooie]

Provided there is something on the screen to be read, the user is
allowed to start reading as soon as the text begins to appear.

Unless it's in a table, in which case some browsers won't render the text in
the table until the </table> tag is encountered, forcing them to wait for
the entire page to load.

To avoid that, just make a short table on top with say... three screens
worth of text and then let the rest load in a second table.

Or maybe, use an actual text file or a PDF file to do the job.