tedster - 2:56 pm on Jul 5, 2000 (gmt 0)

NN4.72 loads this page for me with no redraw, but I've seen an increasing amount of what you describe. The offending pages I've checked out almost always use css as well as nested tables for layout.

NN has been more than a little weak in its implementation of css, and it also has more trouble than MSIE rendering nested tables. The combination can be deadly.

The Standard link you offered creates a style sheet through document.write, but only after running a pretty thorough browser detection script. I'm assuming that therein lies the culprit. Netscape loads the stylesheet info, gets to the bottom of the nested tables and sometimes the initial calculations don't work out, so it redraws the page.

I wouldn't think the ad reloads are intentional, just a by-product of the browser snafu.