Range sliders not quite working

Range sliders not quite working


Hi everybody!
I have a bunch of sliders of various varieties all over this site I'm
working on, and I have a minor issue.
When I'm using jQuery 1.2.6 and UI 1.5.3, the $.slider("value") and
$.slider("values") methods do not have the expected effect. In the
online documentation it's unclear which version is being described,
but "values" should be able to set the values of a ranged slider, but
it has no effect. When I'm using jQuery 1.3.1 and UI 1.6rc6, "values"
and "value" work as expected but there are other issues, such as the
slider's range taking up the full width of the slider all the time.
Is there a way, in the older versions of jQuery/UI, to set a slider's
value without having its callback functions called? I am using
"moveTo" right now but absent a way of disabling the callbacks for
that it's pretty hairy to do it internet explorer, since IE6's
javascript interpretation is so ridiculously slow. I have a button
that resets all the sliders and it takes almost two minutes for IE6 to
churn through it. Trying to get that processing time down to a sane
level Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
- m a x