Ajax with Update Panel in IE = Disaster

Recently, on my office’s project, I got a complain from client regarding the slowness of Ajax request in Internet Explorer (all version, the worst is IE 6) but not other browser. Not only slow (more than 10 seconds), but sometimes it could make the IE hung.

IE 6 Logo

I’ve made an observation and I could conclude that the problem was not on my code or the database query or other else. The problem occurred only when an UpdatePanel make an asynchronous postback request. It seemed the HTML rendering (or I should say the JS process) took a very large amount of time.

Then I search via Google and found these links: here and here. The solution provided on those web pages really helped me a lot. The rendering process is much faster now

Simple IRC Command

For you who wants to download something but you don’t have the MegaUpload/RapidShare premium account and fortunately, you know that file being listed in bot server somewhere in IRC channel but sadly, you don’t know how to download them, here’s your help.

If you already have Firefox and ChatZilla, follow from number #2, otherwise follow from number #1:

1. Download Mozilla Firefox here and install ChatZilla add-on here (you will have to restart the Firefox after you install this add-on),
2. Open your Firefox and type “irc://irc.rizon.net” (without quote, I use Rizon as example) in the address bar, and ChatZilla window will open,
3. And now, just wait until IRC server message being listed completely.

If you haven’t register at Rizon yet and you want to reserved your nickname just for yourself, follow these:

1. Click the button which has the current nickname at the lower right and select “Change nickname…“,
2. The input dialog will open and type in your new nickname, click OK,
3. Type “/msg NickServ register your_nickname_password your_email” (without quote) in input bar,
4. Wait till success message seen on the screen,
5. Open your email and check whether you receive the activation email from Rizon or not. If you have, then follow the activation instructions given there.  If y0u haven’t received, wait a few minutes and try again. If you still haven’t received, restart from step 3 and use another email address.