"Jarrett Billingsley" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Nick Sabalausky<[email protected]> wrote: >> "BCS" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> Hello Nick, >>> >>>> >>>> - Not everyone uses one of the "#1 fastest" browsers (heh, see what I >>>> did there?). For those people, like me, when they go to the "Projects" >>>> link, the page really comes across like it's hung or broken even >>>> though it says "Loading...". And it really takes awhile. That needs to >>>> be improved. Maybe shifting some of whatever processing is going on to >>>> the server side >>> >>> IIRC the slow load is because it is on the server side. Some scipt is >>> loading the full set of projects every time the page loads. >> >> There's definitely at least something going on client side. Otherwise >> there >> wouldn't be that "Loading..." message that shows up at first and >> dissapears >> when it's loaded. Maybe it's just something trivial. But while it's >> loading >> my browser doesn't *seem* to behave as if it's waiting for content from >> the >> server...I really should take a look at that page source... > > It basically consists of a div that says "Loading..." which is > replaced by the content loaded asynchronously. > > Would it help if it had one of those spinny-wheel images? ;)
I've been browsing through the html/js code for that page. Looks it what it does is asynchronously load an XML representation (generated by the server) of all the project information and then, on the client-side, that XML is parsed and used to generate the project list/links. Of course, I can't be certain just from looking at that where most of the time is being spent, client or server, but judging by the fact that I'm stubbornly holding on to FF2 (yea, I really, really hate FF3, and I am really, really picky) and nobody else seems to be complaining about the loading, I'd guess it's probably mostly the client code that's taking all the time. Also, a couple of the js files seem to have their entire content repeated. Weird. But I'm probably getting way offtopic now...
