"Edge" wrote:

> I'm not sure this is a scripting problem, but here goes:
>
> We are developing web-based applications that are heavily reliant on
> client-side programming, and many of our apps are based on SQL-based data
> with many line items. In this particular case, we use AJAX to retreive the
> line items, and dynamically populate a <TABLE> with one row per line item,
> each of which has several INPUT fields. We've overcome the parsing overhead
> by only displaying 20 rows at a time (the rest hidden), but we've found that
> when the user navigates away from the screen, the browser hangs for some
> time, CPU hits the ceiling, then finally the next page (which is small) gets
> displayed. Apparently IE is "unloading" or "unparsing" the objects from
> memory. Is there a reason this is slow, and is there any way to speed this
> up? I keep thinking of the "lightweight=true" in behaviors, and wonder if
> there is a HTML document equivalent.
>
> Thanks,