Posted by member 2112 on 2003-12-02 17:55:24 link
"The style bit could be the problem"
No it couldn't, and wasn't what I was suggesting. I was just explaining why the corner image was repeated 50 times. A background image will have (should have) no effect on the width of the column.
"Its strange because if there was a large DB call right after the first image I would understand"
By first image, do you mean the corner image of the news tab? The only image in the HTML is images/blank.gif. But what we see is the image used as a background defined in the style sheet. I don't think a DB call at this point would have any effect. Especially since I would have throught the page would be completely parsed before being sent to the user agent.
"as for the tag closing...it is because there are multiple tags on each line"
I validated the this thread with the W3C validator and it defintely looks like on line 113 should not be there. There's also a on line 413 which was reported to be out of place but it's difficult to tell. I don't think this is causing the problem with firebird though.
COLGROUP shouldn't be necessary since the width of all tables and cells have been well defined in the CSS but it's the only thing I can think of that would correct the problem since Firebird doesn't seem to know how wide that column is until the page is fully downloaded.
No it couldn't, and wasn't what I was suggesting. I was just explaining why the corner image was repeated 50 times. A background image will have (should have) no effect on the width of the column.
"Its strange because if there was a large DB call right after the first image I would understand"
By first image, do you mean the corner image of the news tab? The only image in the HTML is images/blank.gif. But what we see is the image used as a background defined in the style sheet. I don't think a DB call at this point would have any effect. Especially since I would have throught the page would be completely parsed before being sent to the user agent.
"as for the tag closing...it is because there are multiple tags on each line"
I validated the this thread with the W3C validator and it defintely looks like on line 113 should not be there. There's also a on line 413 which was reported to be out of place but it's difficult to tell. I don't think this is causing the problem with firebird though.
COLGROUP shouldn't be necessary since the width of all tables and cells have been well defined in the CSS but it's the only thing I can think of that would correct the problem since Firebird doesn't seem to know how wide that column is until the page is fully downloaded.