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.
CSS cubes really showcase what CSS has become over the years, evolving from simple color and dimension directives to a language capable of creating deep, creative visuals. Add animation and you've got something really neat. Unfortunately each CSS cube tutorial I've read is a bit...
Feature detection via JavaScript is a client side best practice and for all the right reasons, but unfortunately that same functionality hasn't been available within CSS. What we end up doing is repeating the same properties multiple times with each browser prefix. Yuck. Another thing we...
News scroller have been around forever on the internet. Why? Because they're usually classy and effective. Over the next few weeks, we'll be taking a simple scroller and making it into a flexible, portable class. We have to crawl before we...
Regardless of our position on vendor prefixes, we have to live with them and occasionally use them to make things work. These prefixes can be used in two formats: the CSS format (-moz-, as in -moz-element) and the JS format (navigator.mozApps). The awesome X-Tag project has...
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?