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Menu performance. IE vs Firefox Options
Mark
Posted: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 9:13:57 AM
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Joined: 7/11/2007
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Thanks for a great product that I'm generally very happy with, however, I'm having an issue with Internet Explorer's performance using the EO menu. It works great in Firefox, but both IE6 and 7 are much slower to render the images. So slow in fact, that I'm able to get a screen grab while it's rendering.

Here's a section of the screen grab:



You can clearly see that the menu hasn't finished redrawing.

Concurrently, IE's status bar says:

"Downloading picture http://domain.com/eo_web.ashx?id=daf15cc..."

This happens every time I roll over a menu item.

In Firefox, I get none of this; the menu appears instantly and the images don't require downloading more than once.

Am I missing some trick to force IE to cache the images? Any other tips on speeding up menu performance?

Thanks in advance,

Mark
eo_support
Posted: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 9:24:06 AM
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Hi Mark,

This is a known issue where IE would not cache the image. We renders the image with caching headers properly set and for some reason IE just refuse to cache them and it occurs particular when the image is a background image, which is your case. We have experimented and noticed that IE often started to cache them if you clear out your temp file cache, but it will soon stop caching them as if it has never seen these images.

One thing you can try is to use real image files instead of the built-in "virtual images". You can find all the image files we use in a zip file Images.zip in your installation folder. You can unzip that file to get the real images, put it on your server, then set appropriate menu properties to use those files. This way it may not be able to get the cache working, but at least it bypasses ASP.NET when the image is fetched. Thus eliminates at least one step.

We will continue to research the cache issues and see if we can find anything.

Thanks




Mark
Posted: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 9:29:43 AM
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What a shame. Thanks anyway - I'll try the real images and see how that goes.

Mark
RAM
Posted: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 8:17:55 AM
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Could you explain step by step process to achieve this as we are facing the same issue ?

Thanks
eo_support
Posted: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 8:42:49 AM
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Hi,

We have replied in your original post:

http://www.essentialobjects.com/Forum/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=2036

Thanks


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