Slow, jerky scrolling but only on large HTML pages

[steve.toub]

Hi--

I maintain a website and one of my users complains that when viewing
some large HTML pages (roughly 1MB), the scrolling is slow and jerky.

I am able to duplicate this using IE 6 (WinXP SP2 with all patches
applied), regardless of the scrolling technique (click on scrollbar,
page down, spacebar). Scrolling is fine in the following cases:
* in all other applications besides IE
* on smaller sizes HTML pages in IE (this site and others)
* in Firefox 1.5 for this same set of pages that render poorly in IE

The HTML on these pages is completely valid. There are no <table>s on
the page. An example is:
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/updates/ucsb20060117.html

I have turned smooth scrolling on and off, installed the latest video
drivers, and the problem persists.

I did some searching but I haven't seen anything in the Microsoft KB,
Usenet, or Google that addresses this. Does anyone have any ideas on
how to resolve this? I know I can workaround by dividing this page into
smaller pages or by asking users to use Firefox, but I'm hoping to
avoid those workarounds.

--SET

 

[Jan Il]

Hi--

I maintain a website and one of my users complains that when viewing
some large HTML pages (roughly 1MB), the scrolling is slow and jerky.

I am able to duplicate this using IE 6 (WinXP SP2 with all patches
applied), regardless of the scrolling technique (click on scrollbar,
page down, spacebar). Scrolling is fine in the following cases:
* in all other applications besides IE
* on smaller sizes HTML pages in IE (this site and others)
* in Firefox 1.5 for this same set of pages that render poorly in IE

The HTML on these pages is completely valid. There are no <table>s on
the page. An example is:
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/updates/ucsb20060117.html

I have turned smooth scrolling on and off, installed the latest video
drivers, and the problem persists.

I did some searching but I haven't seen anything in the Microsoft KB,
Usenet, or Google that addresses this. Does anyone have any ideas on
how to resolve this? I know I can workaround by dividing this page into
smaller pages or by asking users to use Firefox, but I'm hoping to
avoid those workarounds.

--SET

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Steve

I am getting the same results here. I'm not a webpage expert by any stretch,
but, a few a file size of 1166488 bytes is really pretty large, and the
links are very big and there are a good deal of them. Try to reduce the
size of the page file size.

Also, just as a test, try commenting out the stylesheet info then
temporarily save it and see if any problem areas are revealed. Then do the
same with the 'script' info.

Perhaps by making all the information inside the 'a' areas bold and not
using so many 'strong's' to bold text you can reduce the file size some.

I am sure there are others here who can offer much better information, but,
it's just an observation.

Hope this helps.

Jan
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[steve.toub]

Thanks for the speedy response, Jan.

With the CSS commented out, scrolling is perfect. And when I replaced
the two columns with a two-celled <table> rather than floating <div>s
things are also great. So, that's my workaround. Thanks!

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Steve

Thanks for the speedy response, Jan.

With the CSS commented out, scrolling is perfect. And when I replaced
the two columns with a two-celled <table> rather than floating <div>s
things are also great. So, that's my workaround. Thanks!

You're very welcome! I'm truly glad to hear you were able to resolve your
problem. Good job!

Thank you very much for posting back and letting us know what worked for
you, and for the benefit of other readers who might have a similar problem.

Jan
MS MVP - Windows/Internet Explorer
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