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Re:10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet by wayfinder on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:14PM (#38494415)
IE had a setting that forced tables to render progressively. They documented it on the Microsoft web dev site and also I’m reasonably sure in their “cool things you can do in IE5.5” book.
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Re:10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet by handy2000 on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:51PM (#38494663)
Didn't know that! Wonder what made them choose to turn this off by default. Must be an interesting eng story.
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Re:10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet by wayfinder on Saturday December 02, 2023 @12:57AM (#38496311)
I used it and it almost progressively updated too often - like cell by cell, so it wasn’t very pretty. So you kind of had to know when to use it and when not to.
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