When using a table with a reasonable amount of data - 100 rows by 50 columns - I notice that IE8 performance degrades unacceptably (only in IE8 standards rendering mode). The CP
Realistically, with IE, you are better off constructing the entire HTML and plopping it in at once with style="" or the classes you are looking for. If you can handle the regressions, render X rows per table and multiple tables to 'stream' in changes.