--- Dan Steinman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm going to be doing a revamp of the core in the near future. I've been implementing some custom dynapi2 widgets for a few clients and noticing some bottlenecks. The creation system itself is already fairly optimized, but the way some of the widgets are constructed makes them slow and cumbersome for the browser to render. For example, completely avoid Label it a serious bottleneck at the moment. Mouse events need to be re-examined and optimized also. On the Netscape side of things I know of some very important changes that can be made to DynAPI to cure most instability problems. DynAPI2 will eventually have the ability to insert the objects before load time (as in DynAPI1), it just needs to be fixed up a bit to allow this. This should help drawing performance in IE, but again with some drawbacks for Netcape 4 - it'll be your choice on which way to use it. If speed is an issue for you, and cross-browser isn't, but you still want to build widgets with DynAPI then do as someone else suggested - build the main structure as a DynLayer inherited object with browser specific contents. There's nothing stopping anyone from building browser specific widgets in fact I encourage it and will be trying to optimize the DynAPI for this type of widget building. I've registered dynapi.net and dynapi.org, though not quite sure what I'm going to do with them at this point. I'm thinking of writing and building another Dynamic Duo tutorial type site, but it may be for a fee because I cannot realistically spend enough time on such a site again unless there's some financial backing to it. I'm working on some new widgets, and replacement widgets, and soon will be starting a full time job where I'll likely be working with DynAPI on almost a daily basis. So I can reassure you that things will be improving. If you want to see some small but neat new things that will be added to the dyanpi2 distro in the near future see these: A cute integrated debugger: http://dynapi.net:81/test/debugger/debugger.html New graphics package implementing VML for IE (will be udated for SVG): http://dynapi.net:81/test/drawapp/drawapp.html BTW - don't use http://dynapi.net/ at the moment because it's running off a different server (a friend's business site) but this will change soon. My apologies for being MIA for quite some time now, but life takes precedence to DynAPI :) Cheers, Dan Steinman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-dev
