" (Again, my opinion) Now, with these new CF8 Ajax components, >developers are using cfform again, to get the fancy grids and >auto-suggest." Right on. Ajax is BIG deal, also, I love ColdFusion, and I don't want people to get wrong idea...
Ok, I've cracked some core text editing js code, now, here's some quick comparison with FckEditor: without fckeditor (using ff2's YSlow as a benchmark tool) browser data load size 700k, time taken 2 seconds. with fckeditor, size 1330k, time taken 8 seconds. The thing, that is great about Fckeditor is that it has WYSIWYG feature... it's important, I'll either provide that or go for existing one that has this feature... Thanks. P.S. While many are constructive on this thread one or two are plainly annoying... oh well... >Don, > >I'm going to try to be nice here. I'm quitting smoking right now, so if >I seem snappy try not to take it personally. > >Adobe has given us tools, within CF, to do things that most backend, >server-side developers never (or rarely) get into. It made them dead >simple, used the best and most professional third party libraries >available (in my opinion), and set it up so anyone could do it. If your >application is too slow for you, or your client, and your not willing to >put in the extra work to make it better, by rolling your own solution, >then that isn't the fault of Adobe. I apologize for being blunt, but >most ColdFusion developers, past the beginner level, rarely if ever use >cfform, and haven't for years. It was made for really rapid prototyping, >small projects with no budget or time, and developers who can't (or >wouldn't) write their own custom form validation, and has never been >ideal. (Again, my opinion) Now, with these new CF8 Ajax components, >developers are using cfform again, to get the fancy grids and >auto-suggest. More advanced applications require 'beyond the basics' >functionality of these controls, and developers have to learn the >underlying libraries to build those applications. > >Ext isn't that hard, and you probably could have rewritten the majority >of your application in the time that this thread has been going on. You >would have already optimized the code for better browser performance. >Also keep in mind that the average user will not have caching disabled >on their browser (like developers do), and the perceived performance of >these components will be much higher to them, after the initial page >load, because all of the assets will be resident in their browser cache. > >Steve "Cutter" Blades >Adobe Certified Professional >Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer >_____________________________ >http://blog.cutterscrossing.com > >D >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:300258 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
