IE8 scrolling is jerky and/or freezes the page

Appears to be a well-documented issue with IE8 (http://www.google开发者_StackOverflow社区.com/support/forum/p/sites/thread?tid=7cbcfc2e558f909b&hl=en) but a client of mine is giving me a tough time over this. I'm on Mac but have tested on Windows XP/IE8 and can't even replicate the issue, nevermind fix it.

Also, I'm not really "fixing" anything since there's nothing wrong with the website – just IE8.

Anyway, has anyone come across similar issues before? Any help for me much appreciated.

I’m having the same issue with IE8 on Windows XP. Here was my code for an animate scroll with jQuery :

$('html, body').animate({
scrollTop: offset
});

The browser froze for what seemed the animation duration, so I changed my code for IE8 with :

$('html').scrollTop(offset);

But with the same freezing. I eventually disabled it entirely on IE8 (but if it was possible on my current work, it may not be an option in future ones…)

I don't know why this works but Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility - unchecking the box "reset text size to medium for new windows and tabs" totally fixed the problem for me in ie 11 running Windows 8.1 on a laptop.