Stefan,

we have a test machine with a Win2k/IE6 image on it. Unfortunately, this
machine is right now undergoing mainenance, but hopefully we will be
able to check your problem next week.

=Thomas
> Hello qooxdoo community,
>
> being new to this mailing list let me first say >Thank You< for creating 
> this wonderful piece of software!
>
> Within a project where the document retrieval as part of a DMS is being 
> realized as a qooxdoo 0.6.6 based web application (with a PHP 
> DB-backend), our customer encountered a problem where the lists (made up 
> by qx.ui.table.Table) seem to be buggy only within a certain system 
> environment.
> While during development Firefox is our web browser of choice, due to 
> administrative reasons we are bound to support IE6 at our customers 
> place. All Windows XP workstations there (lots of them) do their job 
> flawlessly, while the few old Windows 2000 workstations do fail at a 
> certain point when it comes to render tables with vertical scroll bars. 
> When dragging the bar(s) (at a certain speed!), the browser does crash.
>
> I was able to reproduce this problem. Using the scroll bar very gently, 
> giving the browser a chance to render the rows one by one, everything 
> seems to work fine. Especially when using a form with two tables with 
> vertical scroll bars, the browser easily crashes when dragging one 
> table's bar, then quickly the other one's. Sadly I cannot instruct our 
> customer how to drag the scroll bars, so I have to find a fix.
>
> I searched the qooxdoo bug lists, but did not find this special issue 
> covered there; I thought to have found a similarity in bug#317 and tried 
> the suggested workaround, but without success.
>
> Further on I had hoped to find this issue resolved within qooxdoo 0.7, 
> but today, when testing on the new qooxdoo Demo Browser, I found IE6 
> crash when trying the Table 1 and Table 2 widgets (Table 3 using up so 
> much CPU time on my test machine that a quick rendering seems impossible 
> anyway, maybe thus preventing the crash, which might lead to the 
> suspicion of the browser rendering engine being broken).
>
> While, as I stated before, this problem does not persist on Windows XP 
> (tested with IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2) and not on Firefox (any tested 
> version), there seems to be an as yet unadressed bug of 
> qx.ui.table.Table within Windows 2000 (SP4)'s standard IE 6.0.2800.1106 
> (SP1 with several updates).
>
> As I found this problem on any Win2k machine I could test, while no 
> update seemed to fix it, I ask if any reader here knows of this problem 
> and maybe even of a fix to it.
>
> To reproduce the effect, just take a machine with the OS and browser 
> mentioned before and start any qooxdoo table demo with a vertical scroll 
> bar (like 
> http://demo.qooxdoo.org/current/demobrowser/#example~Table_2.html) . 
> Drag the bar quickly up and down and watch the browser error message pop 
> up. Please have in mind that I was only able to test on rather slowish 
> machines (Pentium III 800Mhz class notebook like, 128MB RAM, IE eating 
> up ~ 70 megs within the demo). I'd be interested to know if this effect 
> did not happen on fast or extra slow systems.
>
> As I'm inexperienced in what effects being defined as a bug in the 
> qooxdoo context, I'd rather post my thoughts here that committing a bug 
> to that special list (I'd do that if I was more certain about the 
> circumstances). Please forgive me if this is inappropriate.
>
> Any help appreciated, thx in advance,
>
> Stefan
>
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