[Chameleon] page refresh difference between IE and Firefox

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Jacob,

thanks for your answer. The Firefox guys did a far better design than the  
IE guys :)

I always wondered if the use of the XMLHttp javascript object could help  
this behaviour. Did anyone ever try to combine Chameleon with that?

Best regards,
Bart

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:07:30 +0800, Jacob Delfos  
<jacob.delfos at maunsell.com> wrote:

> 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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