Wim Roffel wrote:
> Consider the following a webpage:
[snip]
> In Mozilla you will see a counter going rather slowly from 1 to 1000. In IE
> you will only see the figure 1000 after a short wait.
>
> I suspect that this is major reason why Mozilla is so slow when you have
> many input fields.
Not the reason, merely another symptom of the underlying problem.
> Does anybody know why this is made so?
Currently, a lot of DHTML (javascript/DOM) processing is S L O W. This
is regarded as a bug, and is under investigation. There's a tracking
bug in bugzilla somewhere, and quite a few bugs for specific issues.
Sorry, I can't recall any bug numbers right now.
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gav
