Why not try paging on scroll, similar to Google Reader? I think there was a plugin for just that a while ago.
- jake On Nov 6, 2007 5:01 PM, Josh Nathanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I had to do just that (add mouse events directly to the html elements) in a > similar situation. Binding via jQuery was too slow when it got up to 1000 > or so bindings. I was getting the "long running script" errors. A > necessary evil in that scenario I'm afraid. > > In my case users can select how much data they want to view. Sometimes > people like loading tons of data onto a page, as they prefer scrolling to > paging. > > -- Josh > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Karl Swedberg > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1:55 PM > Subject: [jQuery] Re: PROBLEM: Adding hover to table rows on large tables > > You could add onmouseover and onmouseout directly to the <tr>s. It's ugly > (don't tell anyone I suggested it), but it might avoid the overhead. > > > > > > --Karl > _________________ > Karl Swedberg > www.englishrules.com > www.learningjquery.com > > > > > > On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:43 PM, fambizzari wrote: > > > > > You guys are all right, but so many rows on one page are necessary > here. > > > I'll try to figure out an acceptable work-around. > > > Thanks > > > > > > > On Nov 6, 8:38 pm, "Andy Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd have to agree. I can't see any practical reason why you'd need to > display that much data on one page. Aside from the download, and rendering > time, the performance of the browser with that much data in memory would be > horrible. Scrolling, copying, etc. would all be severely affected. > > > andy > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > > Behalf Of Jeffrey Kretz > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:21 AM > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > Subject: [jQuery] Re: PROBLEM: Adding hover to table rows on large tables > > > Personally, I would recommend looking at a paging solution, rather than > trying to deal with so many rows on a single HTML page. > > > I tested a simple 10,000 row table with very little data in it clocked in at > a 2mb download, requiring 4 seconds to download and render as a local file > on FireFox (i.e. no network traffic, loading the .htm file out of my local > file system). > > > And the more DOM elements of the page the harder it is to manipulate with > any kind of scripting. > > > If paging your results doesn't work for you, then the tr:hover CSS-only > solution would really be the best way to go. > > > JK > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of fambizzari > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:29 AM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] Re: PROBLEM: Adding hover to table rows on large tables > > > The solution i adopted was CSS (tr:hover) for non-IE6 and only allow small > tables to have hover-over using a class name to identify them. > > > Any better solutions? > > > On Nov 6, 10:45 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The following code works fine on small tables: > > > > $("table tbody > > > tr").mouseover(function(){$(this).addClass("over");}).mouseout(function(){$( > this).removeClass("over");}); > > > > But on tables with 5,000-10,000 rows, it throws the "A script on this > page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the > script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue." > > > > Can anyone suggest a workaround? > > > > Thanks > > >
