Hi Jack, Are you still planning on implementing this feature of putting a message / progress bar for IE (and firefox to keep it consistent)? Or have you come up with any better ways of handling this.
Thanks, Anoop On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Anoop kumar V <anoopkum...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Jack, > > Yes, if you could do something along those lines, it would be most helpful. > Would putting a progress bar like gmail be a better option or should it be > just a loading gif....either would work for me for now. > > Thanks, > Anoop > > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jack Killpatrick <j...@ihwy.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi Anoop. >> >> I spent considerable time tuning the code for performance, but yes, IE >> does lag behind, especially when approaching 1000 items or more. I found >> Safari and Chrome to both be quite fast and Firefox nearly as fast as those. >> The IE issue stems from the code that moves the items from the original UL >> or LI into the separate lists used for each submenu. >> >> I messed around a little with implementing a built-in Loading... message, >> but found IE's behavior so annoying (it likes to appear hung when it's not >> and workarounds only delayed the load time) that I decided not to include >> that in the plugin. I'm on vacation right now, but early next week could >> take a look at a workaround you might be able to use to show a message and >> then hide it after IE is done chugging way. Let me know and I'll put some >> thought into it. >> >> Thanks, >> Jack >> >> >> Anoop kumar V wrote: >> >>> I am using listmenu and it works fantastically well... except only on >>> firefox. >>> >>> On IE 7 it is quite slow, the lag is very noticeable - the menu appears >>> after about 6-7 seconds and the counts come much later after about 8-10 >>> seconds. Since this is an intranet app, I need to ensure that IE 7 works >>> very well. I have about 2000 elements and they are not at all balanced >>> across the alphabets... >>> >>> Are there any tips that I could follow such that the menu displays >>> quicker in IE? Or at the very least is there a way I can show a "Loading... >>> " text or an animated gif while the menu loads.. >>> >>> But thank you for this wonderful plugin it is really well made, I only >>> wish IE would catch up soon ;-) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Anoop >>> >> >> >> >
