with a moderm browser, the jquery datatable plugin works very well but in ie6 i find that its almost impossible to type in teh filter textbox as the keypress filtering is insanely slow so the browser can’t keep up with your typing.
is there anyway to change the behavior so that it only searches and filter on enter key compared to every key press?
Unfortunately, no. But, the library is open source. So, you could try altering the code (you might have some luck with the .keyup event around line 3016)?