I am using asp to render data from a database on the screen. If the information gets to long the page does not display properly. The person that I am generating this for does not want the multiple pages and I have not been successful at explaining that there is a character limit to what can be displayed on the browser. I was hoping someone can tell me where there is a reference to the limit so I can show the person.
Although there must be some reasonable limit, based perhaps on available memory to the machine, or perhaps based on the amount of time that a user is willing to sit there & wait for the data to download, I've never found it.
I have an ASP module that queries an accounting database (one line per row in a table), and if I do a complete pull of 4800+ invoices, it generates a 5,697 KB document. Now, I probably wouldn't do that remotely, but on my gigabit LAN connection, it runs in about 30 seconds.
Why limit it? If the user wants it all in one page, go for it!
