Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Bueller? -Prasanna
On Apr 30, 2:11 am, "duelin.markers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're using the auto_complete plugin to generate Ajax.Autocomplete > calls. The way the page works is the user chooses an item from the > autocomplete list, which populates the field with the full text of the > item, and then clicks an 'Add' button which adds it to a list > elsewhere in the page (and a hidden input) and clears out the > autocompleting field so the user can add more items. > > This works fine in Firefox no matter how the user interacts with the > autocomplete box. In both IE6 and IE7, it's fine if the user uses the > keyboard to make their selection (i.e., type some characters, arrow > down, Enter or Tab). However, if the user uses the mouse to choose an > item, it seems fine at first, but gets slower with each selection. > The slowdown seems exponential: it is barely noticeable through the > first few selections; around the seventh or eighth, it becomes > unbearably slow. We see IE consuming 100 of the CPU while waiting for > the selection to happen. > > We put some debugging statements into our code (as we specify an > after_update_element option that we thought might be to blame) as well > as controls.js to try to narrow down where the slowdown is. All the > slowness is before our afterUpdateElement code is called. We put > statements into the onClick of Autocompleter.Base and were surprised > to find the slowdown doesn't seem to be localized to one call: each > line runs very slowly. > > Having googled around, we haven't found any reference to similar > issues. Has anyone seen anything like this? Any thoughts on what > might be causing it? > > Thanks. > -john. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
