Re: Flexible Shopping Cart (was: Shopping Carts)

Robert Cummings wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 14:23 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Eric Butera <eric.butera@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Have you messed around with compressing your output at all? Using >>> something like mod_deflate is pretty nice while falling back on the ob >>> gz stuff makes a huge improvement too. >> I have, but the improved performance to which I was referring >> comes from pure HTML rules. A lot of people (and myself included, >> until about two years ago) aren't aware of one of the fundamentals of >> HTML: the page won't start to display until all of the tables are >> drawn. Newer browsers are getting better with it, but it still takes >> longer than stylizing the page with div's and CSS. >> >> Is that whole Magento system done with CSS, with zero tables? > > You know... it's all fine and dandy to eliminate tables... except where > tabular data is concerned. Tabular data is SUPPOSED to be in a table. > > Cheers, > Rob. Wow! My soul mate, matched on 1 dimension of compatibility! I agree.