Bijan Parsia wrote:
> 
> --On Monday, August 27, 2001 1:48 AM +0100 John Hinsley
> <jhinsley at telinco.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > Tidy is a nice tool. My main objections to it are that it balances tags
> > where they really don't need to be balanced -- unecessarily increasing
> > the length of documents is _always_ a bad thing
> 
> No, it's not, especially if it makes parsing easier.
> 
> A stronger objection to Tidy is having a two pass rendering -- for many
> machines this would be unbearably slow, espeically as Scamper (to my
> knowledge) doesn't (yet) cache rendered pages.

I did a quick test with the source code from minnows quote of the day 
page. Parsing the page takes 470 milliseconds and formatting the 
page with the table support takes 2200 milliseconds. This is on a old 
150 mz mac. Thats not too bad:-)

Karl