[Chameleon] page refresh difference between IE and Firefox

[Jacob Delfos]

Bart,

I think it's just the way the browser was designed. Internet explorer 
immediately blanks the page when you change URL, and gradually builds it 
up as it receives the new info. Firefox seems to wait until it has 
received all the info it needs to completely build the layout of the new 
page, and only then switches to the new page, keeping the old page on 
the screen until then.

I doubt you could change much about it, except loading everything in a 
div, and using onload to make the div visible, so you don't see the site 
being built up. This is actually why we use javascript for all our 
production sites so far (and for performance). It is faster, and looks 
much better from a user point of view.

What I'd love to see one day, is all communication being done through an 
invisible Iframe, and all elements being changed dynamically. Kind of 
like opening drawmap.php in an Iframe, but instead of it returning an 
image, it returns the javascript needed to change the URL of the 
mapimage (to a new static imagefile). I think google maps might also be 
using this approach, but I'm not sure.

regards,

Jacob



-----Original Message-----
From: chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org
To: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
Sent: 3/25/2005 8:55 PM
Subject: [Chameleon] page refresh difference between IE and Firefox

Hi list,

does anybody have a clue why Chameleon sites used in IE come back with a
fully white page after submit, and then start building the site again.
In
Firefox the site refresh is much nicer, for the user it seems only the
dynamic content (map, keymap etc.) is changing.

Can anything be changed in the way the site refresh works in IE? Or is
this just the way IE operates?

Best regards,
Bart

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