Jason Antony wrote: > testers may have noticed that past builds would grind to a near slow > halt, but stay afloat when visiting the w3c CSS homepage: > > http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ > > The current win32 build [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; > rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011108] crashes.
Known bug, fixed a couple of days ago. > I have also noticed that fixed elements result in a heavy performance > hit WRT scrolling. Two examples are: > > - floating menus [such as that found at the CSS homepage], and > > - fixed backgrounds > > Both Opera and IE fare much better when rendering pages containing > these. Of course, I'm not sure if IE 5.x supports the first one well. Do Opera and IE even support "position: fixed"? Rob
