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"Rupa Schomaker (list)" <rupa-list@rupa.com> writes:

> SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
> 
> > Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes in ding@gnus.org:
> > 
> > > SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
> > >> * Notwithstanding the previous item and the coolness of Lars'
> > >> presentation, I'm not sure I like handing html parts to W3 as a
> > >> default.  It was pretty cool that tm blanked it out -- html
> > >> doesn't belong in either mail or news.  How fast does this all
> > >> work on slow(er) machines?  W3 flies on Demeter, but that's not
> > >> exactly a fair test yet.
> > 
> > > I don't even notice that some articles are in HTML rather than plain
> > > text.  This is on a 166 Mhz UltraSPARC.  I don't think you can buy
> > > PC's slower than that today.
> > 
> > O.K.  Fair enough.  Objection dropped.
> 
> 
> Where W3 really breaks on my machine is on the only piece of HTML email
> that I actually read.  It is about 60K and is a multi-level table.
> Rendering it takes about 30s - 1min on my PPro 200.  Very slow.  Regular
> "HTML Email" that most people generate renders immediately.  I think that
> tables just take forever to render...

Tables are very slow.... if anyone wants to volunteer to rewrite the
rendering of them, feel free. :)

-bp