php-slow loading in ie sp1 and firefox

Poster: lawvest
Dated: Monday July 3 2006 - 21:37:03 BST

I have a table based menu on a dynamic site. It works fine in ie sp2 but is slow in loading in ie sp1 and firefox.

Here is the link:

http://www.yourbackyardgarden.com/store/

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Bruce

Poster: Andy
Dated: Tuesday July 4 2006 - 12:09:54 BST

Hi,

The performance problem is caused because you have embedded the menu inside a table cell. This in itself is not a problem but when you look at the way tables are rendered by the browser you will understand the problem.

Tables need to be fully built before the browser will display it in the users browser. Anything inside the table, menus, images etc will have to be loaded and the ending </TABLE> tag drawn before the table will show up.

if you want to speed thing up, try to build your site without using tables OR remove the menu from inside the table and build it with absolute positioning. You can declare a screen position of center with screenpositon="center"; and then offset the menu to the left slightly with a left offset of left="offset=-200"; - You can then fix the top position with a static value of, for example, top=240; - This will definitely improve the performance of the menu and means your user can use the menu while the rest of the page is loading

Hope this helps,
An6y