Re: HTML DOS? (http://microsoft.com/NTServer/all/Downloads.asp)

[Wilson Roberto Afonso <wilson () zaz com br>]

On Tue, 18 May 1999 09:37:11 -0500, "John Mitchell" <jmitchell () american-trouser com> wrote:
>     I have noticed this same behavior.  Guess what.  MS internet explorer work
> wonderful on these pages.  Care to guess what the reasoning is behind that?  It
> is this kind of stuff that gets everybody in a "dither" about their business
> practices.  I will stop short before this becomes a rant.  Nevertheless, I feel
> sure that it is an "undocumented feature" of the web site.

The (very large) performance hit is caused by the (very large) set of
<table>s within <table>s in the file.  Netscape is very bad at rendering
tables, and IE is much better and faster.  I've always thought Netscape
should do better with tables, and I don't feel MS is doing this on
purpose to make Netscape look bad.  Even if they were, what's exactly the
problem with that ?  They're not causing the problem, they're showing
it.

-Wilson