ie slowing down moving elements help

[turnernm]

created a newscroller in javascript that moves a <ul> from article to article. works fine in firefox but slow in ie. i stripped out everything but the movement to find out ie actually slows the movement down after a bit. for example say the ul is moving 4px per tick after 20px it starts moving at 2px. heres my code:

document.getElementById("prev").onclick=function(){nextItem("prev")};
document.getElementById("next").onclick=function(){nextItem("next")};
var storyModule=document.getElementById("story_module");
var elmUL=storyModule.getElementsByTagName("ul")[0];
function nextItem(direction){
var pos=elmUL.offsetLeft;
var newpos;
newpos=pos-2;
elmUL.style.left=newpos+"px";
setTimeout("nextItem()",10);}
 

any idea how to get it running at a constant speed in ie???

[acoder]

Perhaps 10ms is too small. Try setInterval instead. The constant rendering at a fast rate is possibly an issue for IE, so you could try making it 100 milliseconds instead.