I have a client who is building a business application that will be used with IE8 only.
One of the requirements is to display all of the data in a single page. I am anticipating this data table to be somewhere between 3K - 10K pixels in length. In the worst case scenarios, more than 25K pixels.
What are the technical considerations when serving a page that long? Is there a limit on page length and IE would display a error?
The application is Java/Struts based.
Try it with:
<%
for (int i = 0; i < 25000; i ++) {
%>test<br /><%
}
%>
Try using this Javascript:
<html>
<head>
<script>
window.onload=function(){
var i=10000;
var buff='';
while(--i){
buff+='<br />';
}
document.body.innerHTML=buff;
}
</script>
</head>
</html>
The theoretical answer: Your machine resources are finite - so yes, there's a limit.
The practical answer: Take a look at other very long pages, e.g. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn-book.html