slow page render in ie

[xuefer@…]

​http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/timeline

is IE unsupported? unwelcomed? or untested?

version: ie6xpsp2

[mark@…]

This is related to how IE tends to display pages and affects every bigger page on the net using CSS - not only Trac.

[sam@…]

The timeline page is very often longer than it needs to be.

Is it possible to reduce its size, either with a querystring argument or a config setting? This would solve this problem.

Alternately, you could do something like "show the lesser of 30 days changes, or 1,000 entries". This would make the page a bit faster on heavily used systems.

[Christian Boos]

A new configuration option:

[timeline]
max_events = 1000

sounds like a good idea to me.

About the original issue:

is IE unsupported? unwelcomed? or untested?

unbearably slow? ;)

[Matthew Good]

Replying to cboos:

A new configuration option:

[timeline]
max_events = 1000

sounds like a good idea to me.

This seems like it could be confusing since a user could request a number of days back that exceeds this number of events and they will not actually get to see that number of days. Is there really a need for another setting to regulate this or should we just change the default "days back" on this site, and possibly in Trac itself?

[Christian Boos]

Well, actually there's already a max request argument that can be used for exactly that. It's just not not used by default except by the RSS feed link (and not configurable, fixed at 50).

I think the daysback and eventually a max_events (initially unset, so that daysback takes precedence) should be a user preferences, as that's really a matter of personal preference how many (and what) information you'd like to get from your timeline view. Even more so in the future if we get the ability to filter by author, component, etc.

[Christian Boos]

This used to be an issue with ie6, but ie7 does fine.

On a related note, there's now a max_daysback parameter in TracIni#timeline-section.