Beating the IE Dead Horse

Howdy Allan,

Sweet plugin! It works good when you exclude large data arrays and Internet Explorer. I've got an install of DT on my site that is choking on IE.

I installed a fresh install of DT 1.7.6 and started to play with 2 of the .js versions in the zip file:

http://heykoolaid.com/dataTables/examples/data_sources/ajax.html
http://heykoolaid.com/dataTables/examples/data_sources/js_array.html

I throttled each of them to 10k records, and put some loading time stamps in 'em to get a good idea for how long specific processes are taking..

IE9 works sorta' good. IE8 chokes to death. All the others are fine (obviously).

Here is our scenario: we have approximately 10,000 rows, but we only need to display around 25 - 100 of them at a time. Dom manipulation around all 10k before the page is rendered is very expensive in IE.

Would it be possible to build the dom around the first 25 - 100 and keep the rest of them cached. When the user requests a new page, sorting the table, or paginates the records results in the next set of listings populating the table already built in the page from the json list in memory?