Hiermenus are slow?

[Sushi-X]

how come hiermenus load slow? it seems my page loads fast and then the menu will appear a half a second only after the page is done loading. why is that? i wouldnt think the menu would take so long to load.

[Stefan]

Originally posted by Sushi-X
how come hiermenus load slow?

You computer is slow and you have a complex javascript driven menu that takes time to render?

[Sushi-X]

1.8 ghz pentium 4. i'm afraid it's not it. i've tested it on many comps. this menu loads the most slow on mac IE. on windows IE it takes half a second to load after page is done. on mac it's a lot slower.

[Antithesis]

IE only distributes a certain amount of computer power to JavaScript. So regardless of your speed, it will take a little longer than expected.

[Sushi-X]

how come other scripts like the one by opencube load faster?

[Nedals]

Hiermenus builds all the menues onLoad() so that, once loaded, the drop-downs are relatively fast for the onMouseOver() event. The script is some 800 lines of code and that takes time.