Article:		Very Dynamic Web Interfaces
Subject:		IE very slow processing
Date:		2006-03-22 20:58:00
From:		alexamies
I created an interactive web page allowing users to explore the hormones in the human body using the techniques in this article. It worked brilliantly in FireFox. However, in IE 6 it ran very slowly and in fact gave no response if the clicks did not allow the XML document to be fully parsed. It is a large page and the XML was fairly large as well. I had to convert the JavaScript arrays. DOM processing of the HTML document with IE is very slow as well. The page is at http://www.medicalcomputing.net/endocrine.html

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• IE very slow processing
  2006-03-30 16:01:55 nsimeonov [Reply]
  
  And where exactly on the page did you use the technologies described above? I checked your page and I don't see anything about XMLHTTPRequest...

  
  You are preloading all data using a javascript: endocrine_data.js, and no matter what comments you put on top of the definitions, javascript arrays and classes have nothing to do with XML.

  
  Instead of doing it this complex, you could put the a-elements out of the div-elements and just set the text of the div-element using innerHTML. About the same for the link and change the text from more to less.

  
  But first of all in order to save traffic you better use server-side scripting and databases. For sure a javascript file is not a substitute for a database.

  
  Regards and I hope this really helps you,
  Nikolay