Comments on: JavaScript Performance Rocks; Beware the DOM monster!

By: amyhoy

amyhoy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:55:37 +0000

Paul, you might be surprised to find that I agree with you! We are both known to be perfectionists (fighting that particular demon in order to ship the beta, though!). I dunno about doubling precisely, but we’ll keep writing and revising til it’s really done, and I do believe that’ll be 170-190 pages or so.

And thanks for the feedback re: external references. I hadn’t thought of it in quite that way. I’ll be sure that we add a lot more outgoing links :)

(BTW, if you’re curious about our dedication, I am sitting in a bar in Heathrow, waiting for a 2-leg 24-hour flight!)

By: PaulIrish

PaulIrish — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:31:26 +0000

mini-review:
the book is pretty good.. lots of descriptions for novices.. also lots of examples on how to set up apache/ngnix/etc for cache control.. or the command line for YUI Compressor.
i feel like the book is about half the size it should be. theres a lot of knowledge from yahoo performance that isn’t in here (maybe a good thing). more technical examples would improve it.
also links to more details on each of the recommendations would be useful. there are blog posts all over with more detail on each of these, reach out and extend the education.
dom monster is pretty sweet. (though i’m surprised to hear html comments can slow dom parsing and traversing..)

By: amyhoy

amyhoy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:55:28 +0000

Wow, thanks for the link!

Just wanted to note that we’re not code complete yet :) There’s a lot more code than there is writing around it, true, but we’ve got even more planned.

By: V1

V1 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:44:49 +0000

thats nice :D