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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[b]bitdamaged[/b]: The latest IE7 beta I tried also showed similar performance problems (but the workaround of throwing away "old" data prevented it, similarly.) [b]_Mauro[/b]: I am not removing the DOM nodes in fact (I am actually [i]keeping[/i] those intact,) but the objects in JS that reference them. eg.[code] Item.destructor = function() { this.releaseHandlers(); // remove any mouseover/out etc. from this.o (eg. an image or anchor) this.o = null; // remove DOM reference entirely }[/code]I found that destroying these objects alleviates the performance issue, despite leaving the related DOM nodes intact (though in a "swapped out" JS object, not actually appended to the body as mentioned earlier.) Loading...
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