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mmmdreg

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This page that I made tends not to work on PC's.. well running IE at least.. Could the "large" size of the page (~2mb) have an effect? Or are there tags that shouldn't be there or something.

PC users report that it "seems" to be loading but nothing appears.
 
Interesting. It doesnt crash it, it just doesn't show any part of it. Maybe thats Microsofts way of trying to eliminate anything apple. Thats an apple plugin type ap right?
 
It's html generated from iTune's library.xml using some pretty average coding. There's nothing apple-specific in the code generated..

just off topic, is there a way to decrease html file size by a lot? I tried removing all the indentation and carriage returns which generates one block of html but that only decreased the size by .1 of a meg.
 
Windows can only handle 512KB HTML code pages. So you need to shorten down your site, add diff pages and that. I can't view it with IE on windows, but with Mozilla I can
 
Out of curiosity, what did you use to generate the HTML? Did you use some sort of script you made? Also I really like the look of that, very nicely done. I think the only way to make that gigantic HTML file smaller would be to cut it into multiple pages, having a browser render HTML that big has to be a huge load on the system (Safari hung for about 4 seconds, I would of thought it would hang longer!).
 
You could try lessing the amount of code.

Ideas:
class='maintrd' is set to a majority of the td's. why not create a style just for the td's.

td's have the align='right' set, again in most. the align option was deprecated in html version 4.01, why not use css for this.

some td's have border styles applied to them. this could be another place where coming up with a special class would be of assistance in lessing the code.

to make styling easier, you could adding in other components of the table such as thead, tbody and tfoot: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_tbody.asp
 
doesn't render for me in firefox. i dont know anything at all about html or anything so i dont know if it loaded. 1.0PR by the way with dom inspector, firesomething, cutemenus, image zoom, advanced highlighter, advanced search, gmail notifier, single window, download statusbar, bandwidth tester, and stumbleupon extensions
 
zim: Thanks for the info, I'll change that soon

iceTrX: I'll post it up when it's complete. It's completely customised to myself and has no options so I'll cook something up for everyone else =)
 
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