Robustness of Sortable

Robustness of Sortable


Hello mailing list,
I'm in the process of converting/adding jQuery on several pages and
wanted to employ the sortable plugin for a planned photo album, where
you can set the order of the images.
I recently updated from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2 and am happy that the slight
jittering disappeard, that happend when I first clicked on an image :)
What bothers me now is how easy it is to get the Sortables "out of
sync".
When I simulate a power user that moves items rapidly, blocks remain
blank, images stop half-way while sliding into their position and
Javascript errors pop up.
I have prepared a bare demo at: http://www.fuddyduddy.de/dragdrop/dragDrop.htm
Feel free to drag and drop like crazy :)
The javascript errors were reported in Firebug and I could easily
reproduce the following:
this.helper is null
http://www.fuddyduddy.de/dragdrop/dragDrop-Dateien/jquery-ui-core_drag_sort.js
Line 1365
this.helper is null
http://www.fuddyduddy.de/dragdrop/dragDrop-Dateien/jquery-ui-core_drag_sort.js
Line 1472
Node cannot be inserted at the specified point in the hierarchy"
code: "3
http://www.fuddyduddy.de/dragdrop/dragDrop-Dateien/jquery-ui-core_drag_sort.js
Line 1192
But compared to FF3 and Opera, the handling/performance in IE7 was
actually the worst:(
All tests were conducted on Windows XP SP2
Could I improve on stability by changing my layout/tags?
Would it help to remove/change some of my options (Although I'd lke to
avoid this step...)