IE - Oh how I loathe thee…

Posted by daemach on May 18, 2007

I’ve spent the past couple weeks trying everything I can think of to improve javascript performance in IE. My tableFilter plugin runs incredibly fast in Firefox, but it’s a pig in IE. I’ve been through all of the MSDN “how to improve performance in IE” posts, and every other board I can find, and couldn’t find a resolution.

It turns out that the problem appears to be IE’s handling of CSS. While I’m parsing table columns I add a row and column classname to each cell so plugins can take advantage of them.  Continue reading…