Pages with many objects take unusually long time to leave

Pages with many objects take unusually long time to leave


Hello all,
Our team is using and learning JQuery 1.2.6, IE6, IE7, and Firefox 2.
We've noticed that when the page has a large number of objects (20,000
objects), it takes a long time to unload (leave) the page; somtimes 2
seconds, often long enough that the browser presents the "Script is
taking a long time - continue?" dialog. This delay occurs even if
nothing has been bound to the objects.
This page demonstrates our problem:
<pre>
<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="<c:url value='/jquery-1.2.6.js'/