Further re almut's fine reply, "And browsers vary as to when they actually render content."

Further, the html elements matter. If, for example, your page is formatted using a <table>, <tr>, <td> structure, and you fail to provide width="..." specifications (or the css equivalent), your browser will HAVE TO WAIT for the </table> element to arrive in order to calculate the cell widths to use in rendering. Thus, no matter what you do at the server end, you won't be able to have your table render at intermediate stages.

In this narrow case, you can improve the chance that you'll get intermediate elements rendered, row-by-row, by spec'ing the width of each cell in the first row, be that a <tr> of <th> elements or a row of <td> elements. Note, however the operative phrase here is "improve the chance...."

Even doing so (which is a commonly accepted "Good Practice" for webmonkeys) won't overcome the other possible issues noted by almut and others.

Update: Fixed spelling of almut; closed code tag after 'width="...."'.

In reply to Re^2: CGI Question by ww
in thread CGI Question by njweatherman

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