I generally try to listen to JavaScript/development podcasts and videos when I'm working. It's a great way to continue to learn and get ideas while doing the ho hum programming busywork that's unavoidable. Here's a great Google Talks presentation that was given last summer about JavaScript and speed.
After you watch some of it, let me know what you think. Oh, and trust me, I've seen your JS -- you need this.
How is it possible that JavaScript-based animation has secretly always been as fast — or faster — than CSS transitions? And, how is it possible that Adobe and Google consistently release media-rich mobile sites that rival the performance of native apps? This article serves as a point-by-point...
Firefox OS is all over the tech news and for good reason: Mozilla's finally given web developers the platform that they need to create apps the way they've been creating them for years -- with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Firefox OS has been rapidly improving...
One excellent way to add dynamism to any website is to implement a slideshow featuring images or sliding content. Of course there are numerous slideshow plugins available but many of them can be overkill if you want to do simple slideshow without controls or events.
Backgrounds have become an integral part of creating a web 2.0-esque website since gradients have become all the rage. If you think gradient backgrounds are too cliche, maybe a fixed position background would work for you? It does provide a neat inherent effect by...
Wow… is my scripting really that bad?
It’s refactoring time :D
Thank you for sharing, huge help and now i’ve got gobs and gobs of javascript to go refactor. :)
Thanks for sharing.
I will also have to re-write some of my code.
I’m wandering if Mootools should remove .each(); to encourage good performance practice? Or at least put a note in the documentation warning that it will slow down the code…
Also, is DocumentFragment use in Mootools to speed accessing the DOM?
Well, removing the each() function is not the solution I think… How would you make a sortable list or something like that dynamically? I don’t know another solution for that, you’ll have to select EACH element so you use an each function I gues…. Maybe David does?
How do I track the execution time of my script in several browsers? I’d like to see what kind of improvement I’ll make when I’m adjusting my scripts and classes.
Awesome video, currently in the process of writing it up into a full blog post and I came across something pertaining to MooTools
Does the method “setStyles” cause multiple reflows?
[code]
element.setStyles({
height: “100px”,
display: “block”,
fontsize: “130%”
})
[/code]
will that cause 1 or 3 reflows?
Thank you for a good link and Mootools, David!
I’m just the user of Moo, I like it. Only one thing that makes me unhappy with moo – is to much time, required for library initialization.
I’m constantly optimizing my servers and sites to give users faster and earler page view as much as I can and the last bottleneck is JS library initialization time.
When I’m looking at Firebug in FF I see mootools is blocking all images , asking browser to wait for it’s initialization. It takes about 0.5-0.8 seconds for browser to figure out that it can continue load multimedia objects on page after mootools load.
0.5-0.8 seconds is significant for me, becose some of my users have too much hops (asia) to my servers and usually pages is loading in 1.5 seconds. 0.8 – is the half (!), not filled with any useful actions page load time, too big comparing with total page load time.
Yes, mootools is loading from page header.
According to YSlow or Page Speed recommendations I could move mootools to the end of the page, but I’m worry about document.write calls, that could not modify page objects in some initialization functions that you’re using and I donw’t deeply know…
So my questions is:
1) Can I do “late” or “parallel with loading static multimedia objects” initialization of mootools library somehow?
2) can I safety move whole mootools (or some parts of the library) to the page bottom to prevent browser blocking on objects loading?
3) what methods you’ll advise to speedup parallel page loading with whole (core and nc) mootools?