On certain pages of our site we display the dual fivestars (yours and another users ratings) for about 25 items.

On all browsers except IE6 fivestar is pretty speedy. On ie6 this can take around a minute to render. So the page loads but it just churns as it renders the fivestar form into the stars preventing the user from scrolling or doing anything.

To make sure this was just five star, i removed everything from the page (ads etc) and confirmed this is caused by fivestar.

Any suggestions for improving its performance...i did see duplicate IDs for the form elements when i checked source in firefox. Might this contribute to the slowness?

(If this cant be solved i may look into displaying less fivestars for IE6 only)

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quicksketch’s picture

quicksketch
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A lot of the problems with speed can be corrected by upgrading the version of jQuery to the latest version (which is something like 500x faster than the version of jQuery that shipped with Drupal 5).

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ben99 commented

I checked our version of jquery, looks like we updated this a ways back to the latest and greatest.

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wflorian commented

Same problem here. I updated the jQuery Version with jquery_update. But it is stil very slow in IE.

Chrome and Firefox are doing very good. Any suggestions for improving fivestars in IE?

Thanks in advance.

Florian.

quicksketch’s picture

quicksketch
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

There's not much to be done here regarding a large number of widgets on one page when used in combination with IE6. I'm marking this won't fix. Well written patches would still be accepted.