Virtual Earth Shape Rendering Performance

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Published on 2009-08-31T17:22:52Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 8:03 UTC
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I am overlaying a transparent image on my VEMap control by rendering it as a single VEShape. The shape changes sizes dynamically depeding on the zoom level of my map and can be as large as 4000*4000px. In older browsers such as IE6 and early versions of Firefox 2.x, map control performance degrades rapidly when my shape gets larger than 1500*1500px. The mouse pointer moves slowly and the map responds very slowly to events. I don't see this issue at all in newer browsers (IE7+).

Are there any workarounds to boost performance of rendering a large shape for IE6 users?

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