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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Strange Delay in Page display (OT ??)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:31:03 -0700
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Hi:

    I have noted a delay of from 5 to 11 seconds in displaying a page sent 
from my server to a client (just *me* for now).

I have a very simple page with the following line:

    <body onload="setupflds();">

    etc,etc
    </body>

and the following JS

***********************
function setupflds() {

alert("I get here from 5 to 11 seconds *after* the display shows very 
quickly on the screen !") ;

var srcel=document.getElementById("huserid") ;
var dstel=document.getElementById("iuserid") ;
dstel.firstChild.nodeValue=" "+srcel.value ;

srcel=document.getElementById("hpassword") ;
dstel=document.getElementById("ipassword") ;
dstel.firstChild.nodeValue=" "+srcel.value ;

srcel=document.getElementById("hscrname") ;
dstel=document.getElementById("iscrname") ;
dstel.firstChild.nodeValue=" "+srcel.value ;
}
***************************

Environment:

    My user has just 'registered' at my site thru a series of pages, and I 
then (from my server CGI software) send the above page, and immediately (and 
programmatically) send a confirmatory email message to his email address.

    The user ( i.e., me) sees the page immediately, *but* the onload event 
does not fire for 5 to 11 seconds after the display is shown !

Question:
   Under what condition(s) does the 'onload' event fail to initiate its 
associated function immediately on the display of the page ?

    Or what is happening to delay the initiation of that function ?


Thanks for any insight into this problem.

-- 
Mel Smith