Comments on: IE - Oh how I loathe thee…

By: daemach

daemach — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:15:53 +0000

tableFilter wasn’t designed to link tables like that, but I’m planning on adding some ajax functionality that could include some hooks for that kind of thing. I’ll give it more thought.

By: squid9_

squid9_ — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:13:32 +0000

is it possible to make the the table to display hiearchy of the data, lets say master table and details table

By: daemach

daemach — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:51:02 +0000

I appreciate the suggestion. Unfortunately, the issue is purely with adding a classname to an element. IE just can’t do it on the fly without choking. The more I work with IE the more stunned I am by the terrible design. Who would have thought that hiding the table cells before adding classnames would improve performance (at least in smaller tables…)

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:20:06 +0000

I will probably regret suggesting this — since it’s usually seen as a terrible, horrible, not so good idea — but have you considered using innerHTML instead of DOM? The reason I mention it is:

http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/innerhtml.html

By: daemach

daemach — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:55:20 +0000

Follow-up: I tried using cloneNode and replaceChild as well as createElement removeChild and insertBefore/appendChild with no improvement. The first method was faster than the second, but IE still chokes on the large table. I also tried both methods without the td display:none, and it reverted to the 550MS per column behavior. This tells us that IE tries to apply CSS rules (that don’t exist) to nodes that don’t exist in the DOM. I guess that should be expected since it makes absolutely no sense.

On a whim, I also tried creating the css classes in my stylesheet so they did exist to see if that would help - it doesn’t.

Good thought anyway!

By: daemach

daemach — Sun, 20 May 2007 18:35:34 +0000

It might be worth trying, though the overhead from cloning and reattaching an entire table might be just as bad. You gave me an interesting idea though - I wonder what would happen if I created a brand new td, applied the classnames and contents, then inserted the new one in the old ones place… I appreciate the lead

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 20 May 2007 18:27:02 +0000

You may have tried this already, but what about cloning the table, doing all the manipulations on the cloned copy and replacing the original with the clone when the processing is done? Does ie do the stupid css lookup on elements that aren’t attached to the dom?