When using a table with a reasonable amount of data - 100 rows by 50 columns - I notice that IE8 performance degrades unacceptably (only in IE8 standards rendering mode). The CP
While no explanation for the poor performance has been found, the behavior has been confirmed by other users (reducing the likelihood of an environmental issue).
It seems it is a core issue in the way IE8 deals with There are however workarounds available for achieving a usable hover effect in IE8, the two most worth considering are: I will post any updates here in case I learn anything new, or get a response from the IE team. style manipulation, and I will file a bug with the IE team. I already created a forum post on the Internet Explorer Development Forum which didn't yield any results thus far: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/iewebdevelopment/thread/2afa46aa-16bb-4e65-be38-a6de19b2b2e9
solution with
elements
as suggested by David Murdoch. A rudimentary proof of concept can be found at http://jsfiddle.net/YarnT/1/