--- Benoit Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If it looks like it's more efficient, and I remember
> when we talked 
> about it in my test it was, we should certainly
> fully test it and 
> eventually adopt it.

Yes I agree. We will still have to keep to old method
to support ie4

--
Raymond Irving
 
> Benoit
> 
> On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 07:16  AM, Raymond
> Irving wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some time ago benoit had suggested that we use the
> > createElement() function to create layers inside
> DOM
> > browsers. After hitting my head against the wall
> in
> > trying to prevent slow downs after with each newly
> > created layer, I've found the createElement()
> function
> > to be more efficient than insertAdjacentHTML(). I
> > don't know how well this will scale with nested
> > layers, but I think it's a more efficient way to
> go.
> >
> > Please see the code below. Any comments?
> >
> > Speed Test - 100 layers @ 170ms.
> >
> > p._create = function() {
> >     if (this.parent && !this.elm) {                 
> >             DynElement._flagEvent(this,'precreate');                
> >             var elm, parentElement;
> >             parentElement = this.parent.elm;
> >             if(dynapi.ua.v<5){
> >             
> >
>
parentElement.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeEnd",this.getOuterHTML());
> >                     elm =
> >
>
parentElement.children[parentElement.children.length-1];
> >             }
> >             else {
> >                     elm=document.createElement('DIV');
> >                     elm.id=this.id;
> >                     elm.style.position='absolute';
> >                     elm.style.pixelLeft=(this.x||0);
> >                     elm.style.pixelTop=(this.y||0);
> >                     elm.style.width=(this.w||'auto');
> >                     elm.style.height=(this.h||'auto');
> >             
> >
>
elm.style.backgroundColor=(this.bgColor||'transparent');
> >                     elm.style.zIndex=(this.z||1);
> >                     elm.style.cursor=(this._cursor||'auto')
> >                     elm.style.overflow=(this._overflow!=null)?
> > 'hidden;':'';                       
> >                     if(this.bgImage!=null)
> > elm.style.backgroundImage='url('+this.bgImage+')';
> >                     if (this.bgImage==null && this.html==null)
> > elm.style.backgroundImage='none';
> >                     if (this.clip)
> > elm.style.clip='rect('+this.clip[0]+'px
> > '+this.clip[1]+'px '+this.clip[2]+'px
> > '+this.clip[3]+'px)';
> >                     else if (this.w!=null && this.h!=null)
> > elm.style.clip='rect(0px '+this.w+'px '+this.h+'px
> > 0px)';              
> >                     elm.style.visibility=(this.visible==false)?
> > 'hidden':'inherit';
> >                     elm.innerHTML=this.getInnerHTML();
> >                     parentElement.appendChild(elm);
> >             }
> >             DynLayer._assignElement(this,elm);
> >             DynElement._flagEvent(this,'create');
> >     }
> > };
> >
> >
> > --
> > Raymond Irving
> >
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