[beta7] collection-repeat doesn't handle items larger than screen size correctly

It used to work as expected, but now if the first item in the list is larger than the screen height, subsequent items are not rendered soon enough. It waits until they go off screen before rendering them.

This pen demonstrates:

For background as to why I would want to do such a weird thing, see my comments here:

https://github.com/driftyco/ionic/pull/1157#issuecomment-41864075

Scrolling performance does seem quite improved in the new version, so hopefully this can be sorted out without ruining the gains.

Thanks!
Udi

Hey @udi thanks for pointing this out. Can you open an issue for this on github and include the codepen. We’ll try to get this corrected asap!

Cool, opened. https://github.com/driftyco/ionic/issues/1621