Thanks for the reply, Joe. Our pages already include the DOCTYPE tag. Since my initial post, I dug up some information from the jQuery support site and found that this is a known issue which is being rectified in the next release of jQuery UI.
Unfortunately, there is no formal release date for that next version and the progress is at only about 50% right now. Our solution for the time being is to eliminate the datepicker widget when the user is using Internet Explorer 6 and hopefully replace it with a community developed calendar widget plug-in for the time being. Thanks, Nathaniel On Dec 15, 9:40 am, Joe Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > [Note: I had replied to the author and not the group, so I'm > paraphrasing what I wrote.] > > I would agree that the initial response was not related to the > question. > > I've found that the way to make the datepicker UI more responsive in > IE is to add the DOCTYPE at the begining of the file: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> > > This speeds things up and allows the datepicker widget to slide open > gracefully and in a timely fashion. > > I've had problems with it in a page that has over 2,500 lines of HTML. > At that point the responsiveness of the datepicker widget degrades and > only gets worse as the file gets bigger. > > Of course, I think that perhaps I'm displaying too much data, but it > struck me as odd why this would happen. > > Regards, > > Joe Moore > > On Dec 10, 6:38 pm, The alMIGHTY N <[email protected]> wrote: > > > At the risk of sounding ungrateful for a response, I'm going to take a > > wild guess and say that you did not actually read theissueI was > > having or you would not have suggested what is essentially a basic > > tutorial about how to use the jQuery UIdatepickerwidget which is a > > slightly improved version of what you can learn on jQuery UI's > > website. > > > On Dec 10, 1:54 pm, Jacob Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > You will get help for jquery date picker from this > > > websitehttp://www.blog.jamytech.com/jquery-ui/jquery-date-picker > > > > Regards > > > Jacob Nelson > > > > On Dec 10, 10:22 am, The alMIGHTY N <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hello Richard, > > > > > I did some more testing and determined that it seems to be a general > > > >performanceissue. I created an HTML file that only had text inputs > > > > that were converted todatepickerwidgets and nothing else, and they > > > > did not crash the browser in question *but* caused the browser to > > > > noticeably chug. > > > > > The following is the barebones HTML I refer to: > > > > > <html> > > > > <head> > > > > <title>IE6datepickertest</title> > > > > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http:// > > > > ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/themes/smoothness/jquery- > > > > ui.css"/> > > > > <style type="text/css"> > > > > body { font-family: Arial; font-size: 62.5%; } > > > > </style> > > > > </head> > > > > <body> > > > > <input id="test1" type="text"/> > > > > <input id="test2" type="text"/> > > > > <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/ > > > > jquery.min.js"></script> > > > > <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/ > > > > jquery-ui.min.js"></script> > > > > <script> > > > > $(document).ready(function () { > > > > $("#test1").datepicker(); > > > > $("#test2").datepicker(); > > > > $("#test3").datepicker();}); > > > > > </script> > > > > </body> > > > > </html> > > > > > It may very well have something to do with the hardware as well > > > > although the box on which the IE6 browser runs is decidedly more > > > > powerful with significantly more memory and less installed > > > > applications than the one at my desktop which uses IE7 and does not > > > > suffer from thisissue. > > > > > I have not had a chance to test it at home since I do not have a > > > > computer running IE6 there. I'll have to try the link you sent. > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Nathaniel > > > > > On Dec 10, 8:21 am, "Richard D. Worth" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Is anything else on the page, or have you got this down to a minimal > > > > > test > > > > > case? Does the same occur here? > > > > > >http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/default.html > > > > > > - Richard > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM, The alMIGHTY N <[email protected]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I have a page using jQuery 1.3.2 and jQuery UI 1.7.2, both pulled > > > > > > from > > > > > > the Google CDN. When using Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.5512.xpsp. > > > > > > 080413-2111 on Windows XP Version 2002 Service Pack 3, the page > > > > > > causes > > > > > > the browser to lock up. There is no noticeable increase in system > > > > > > resource usage according to the Windows Task Manager; the browser > > > > > > simply ceases to respond. > > > > > > > If I remove the calls to convert text boxes intodatepickerwidgets, > > > > > > the page works perfectly fine. > > > > > > > I have not tested this page on any other version of Internet > > > > > > Explorer > > > > > > 6. It works perfectly fine in Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2+ and > > > > > > Safari 3+. I have not yet tested it in Internet Explorer 8, Opera or > > > > > > Google Chrome. > > > > > > > I was curious if anyone had experienced thisissueand, more > > > > > > importantly, knew a resolution. > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > -Nathaniel > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > > > Groups > > > > > > "jQuery UI" group. > > > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > > [email protected]<jquery-ui%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > > > > > .com> > > > > > > . > > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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