geek? artist? nope, BOTH!

[Darren Dirt]

sped-up video capture of some hard-coding HTML tables...

http://www.break.com/index/kid-paints-picture-in-html.html

[Tom]

That's pretty slick, at the end there it doesn't even look like tables. I can only imagine the time it takes a browser to actually render that though...

[Darren Dirt]

That's pretty slick, at the end there it doesn't even look like tables.

By the looks of things, the artist set the "cellpadding" or "cellspacing" back down to 0, now that the per-pixel modifications were done.

[Mr. Analog]

Oh my god that was amazing!

[Melbosa]

I can only imagine the time it takes a browser to actually render that though...

Because it is only BGcolors and HTML tables I would assume it is pretty fast actually.

[Mr. Analog]

I can only imagine the time it takes a browser to actually render that though...

Because it is only BGcolors and HTML tables I would assume it is pretty fast actually.

Table nesting is THE process killer for IE (and Firefox). Heck, transforming XML on the fly with JavaScript goes faster.

[Melbosa]

Hmmm I'd have to see it in a link to tell.  I've done some pretty crazy Table designs in my development and have yet to see a major hit in either browser.  I would be that is a lot more than I have done, so who's to say.

[Darren Dirt]

Table nesting is THE process killer for IE (and Firefox). Heck, transforming XML on the fly with JavaScript goes faster.

nesting, yes, perhaps.

but

a simple 2 x 2

grid of

table cells

shouldn't be

all that bad

at rendering.

Case In Point: That Amazing Color Selector Tool Built Via Javascript and Tiny Table Cells With All The Colours.

[Lazybones]

Doesn't see to be much of a performance problem.. Check this out http://neil.fraser.name/software/img2html/

[Tom]

If it was done all as one table, maybe it wasn't so bad, but I've had some fun with VERY nested tables.. Maybe its gotten better since then, I dunno.

[Mr. Analog]

It chokes on bigger pictures, that's for sure!