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Dan
Dan

Reputation: 4663

HTML Loads Slower in IE8+ Than In Other Browsers

I am loading ten separate dropdown lists with about 13,000 options in each list, but they are all the same data set (all the dropdown lists contain the exact same data). I've verified that the html is the issue and not the code populating them (I saved the resulting html and loaded it directly).

Firefox and Chrome take under a minute to load, and load the lists one by one—you can see them appearing on the screen as they are populated. Internet Explorer 8-11 take 3+ minutes to load the page (at least initially) and only shows a gray screen until it all loads at once, and the browser becomes unresponsive for a little while also (and if you click anywhere it stops responding immediately until the whole page loads).

Why does IE take so much longer to load and not handle this as efficiently as other browsers? Is there anything else I can do to optimize this (most of my user base has IE8-9)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 41

Answers (1)

tylerlindell
tylerlindell

Reputation: 1563

You could display an image of the list at first to make it look like it is there until the full list is actually loaded then remove the image. Or allow the list to load over the image and as they begin loading, they would be clickable links. Then remove the image once that is finished...

I like the autoComplete idea better though

It is bc ie 8 sucks though

Upvotes: 1

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