Loading problem in IE ( counts down files before showing anything)

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Hi,

One of my site is having an issue with one of the dynamic pages ( inventory )

On IE6, when i load that page. It counts down from 600 so files to be loaded to 0 before showing anything. The whole deal takes about 15 seconds.

On the other browsers ( I tried FF and Safari), not only it shows the site progressively, but it also takes a lot less time.

Here is the example, click on inventory to see what I mean.

Any idea what it could be?

Thanks
HH
 


The problem is that the entire page is made using HTML tables. Older versions of IE cannot render tables until all of the table's contents are downloaded (including images).

If the site was re-done without tables using more CSS this problem would be avoided.
 
so Divs should be used instead of tables for layout purposes? The rest, more specific elements can still be tables?

A temporary solution would be display less cars on the page?

Thanks
HH
 
I understand that the whole page needs to load. Now this should take 1-2 seconds. This is what it takes on FF and other browsers.

It's the countdown that seems to take a lot of time. 800 items? where do those come from. There max 100 discreet items in the entire site.

HH
 
There are approximately 110 images needed to render the page. Add in the fact that many of the images are used more than once and I could see how there could be 600-800 images on the page. They wold only be downloaded once but IE6 will show each image on the page in that count whether it is a duplicate or not.

The pngfix.js could be causing some of the problem since it's only configured to run on IE and it's processing every image on the page (and IE is notorious for slow Javascript).

My first course of action would be disabling pngfix.js first and see how that works. If that solves the problem, then I'd suggest manually applying the needed png fixes thru a css file that is only shown to IE6 (via conditional tags).
 
So I reworked all the CSs files to target that PNG fix for only the elements that really need them. Things are much better now. Thanks for all the help!

One template, ( the one I showed you above ) has one strange problem.

When go on a page, sometimes the menu buttons don't work. I do a refresh and they work. When I mean by they don't work: no hover effect and no link. Seems to be intermittent.

This happens on my IE6 and that's the only IE6 i have access to. Can anyone else check? Any idea what could cause this?
 
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