From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:41:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC (take 2)] gitweb: New improved patchset view
Message-ID: <20061031234101.38e59ac9.froese@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <200610302339.55128.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
> Edgar Toernig wrote:
>  
> > Btw, while the css version looks nice, Opera seems to have extreme
> > performance problems with gitweb's project page when there are a lot
> > of repositories.  I.e. trying to view http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/
> > brings my system to its knees.  Turning off style sheets cures it
> > but then diffs are unusable ...
> 
> Strange. It's just a simple table. Could you and would you be able to
> debug it further (e.g. by bisecting CSS)?

It's the combination of tr.light/dark:hover and background-color.
Changing the foreground instead of the background color is fast.
Maybe it recalculates the complete table when the background of
a table cell changes.

I've reported the problem to Opera ...