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> HTML cannot, you always have to parse everything in a page to do layout, because later objects can change or overlay earlier ones. HTML is progressively rend
by goto11 6y ago
> HTML cannot, you always have to parse everything in a page to do layout, because later objects can change or overlay earlier ones.
HTML is progressively rendered by default. This has been a feature since Netscape 1.0! It is only if you use certain types of layout this is not possible. For example an adaptive table have to be fully loaded before the width of the columns can be calculated.
- im3w1l 6y agoAnd it was a very important feature too, back when internet was slow.