That's because it loads the page as it reads it. I believe IE renders the whole page before displaying any of it, which is one of the reasons it seems so slow sometimes. (I say, "I believe," because I haven't used IE (or even had it on my machine) in about six or eight years... other than at my brother's house, and that's rarely.)
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