This one took me by surprise. Here’s what happens.
1. You click on an anchor tag.
2. In the onclick event handler (JavaScript/client side), some dynamic objects/IFrames/behaviours (think DHTML) gets added to the DOM.
3. IE believes that the object being added in step 2 is a missing resource and needs to be loaded. Except that the missing resource is a programmatically added resource which doesn’t exist on a server somewhere.
4. So, you end up with a slow loading progress bar.
How do you fix this?
1. Put this in your event handler window.status = “Some interesting message”
2. Create an empty 1×1 IFrame, save a variable reference to it and write a blank character to it.
window.document.write(“”);
window.document.close();
Note: Here window is the IFrame window.
3. Create a 1×1 IFrame, but set its location to "about:blank"
Here are the reference links
Tags: Internet Explorer, Quirks
