Cover performance, scalability, benchmarks, etc.
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Category: Performance, Showcase
, Utility
Our own Michael Mahemoff has created WebWait. We will let him take it from here: I wanted a portable, consistent, way to benchmark Ajax web apps, that would show how long the wait is (though it’s useful for any app, especially if there were a lot of images, for instance). Using a command-line tool like Read the rest…
Monday, February 5th, 2007
Category: CSS, JavaScript
, Performance
Through the push of jQuery, MochiKit, Prototype, and behavior.js and most recently DomQuery, we are seeing boundaries tested and built upon. Alex Russell (Dojo and SitePen) has written a fascinating piece on the performance of CSS query engines as he introduces us all to dojo.query the latest in the pack, and one that looks to Read the rest...
Friday, January 12th, 2007
Category: CSS, JavaScript
, jQuery
, Performance
, Sencha
Jack Slocum is a machine. We had to add the new YUI-EXT category for him as he is coming up with such good material. His latest, is an article on DomQuery - A lightweight CSS Selector / Basic XPath implementation. Support for more complex schemas and document structures in the grid's XMLDataModel class has been Read the rest...
Monday, December 4th, 2006
Category: Articles, Performance
Jesse Kuhnert, Tapestry/Dojo team member, spent time on caching and compression mechanisms in the effort to give the best experience "for free" with Tapestry. The result was: Browser Caching: Previous versions of the framework weren’t aggressive enough in the way that all of the bundled assets (images/javascript/css/etc) were managed with http headers. Though the Expires Read the rest...
Monday, November 20th, 2006
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Performance
Ryan Breen spoke at The Ajax Experience on Ajax performance, and just released a preview of Actual Experience XF with Actual Experience Lite. Instrumentation To instrument a page for collection of metrics, you first include a small .js file in HEAD. Out of the box, the tag will track the DOM Ready and onload times Read the rest...
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Category: JavaScript, Performance
Gleb Lebedev has gotten into the fun benchmark game. He created a benchmark of DOM vs. innerHTML testing on FF 1.5, IE 6, and Opera 9. His example was building the Google page entirely using the DOM or innerHTML as seen in code here. The results show that innerHTML is king for all browsers:
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
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Here\'s the situation:
two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
We\'re using AJAX to dynamically load content using a tabbed...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
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[div]I\'m trying to set a php session variable from a radio button. The idea is that a jquery function is called...
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