Upayavira wrote: > Another concern IIRC was download size. I remember > (possibly incorrectly) that the toolkit has quite a > large download before it will work, while other > toolkits download piecemeal as required.
That's certainly one approach. And there are good reasons for doing it all together, as well. For example, some users have high-bandwidth but high-latency which makes it better to push as much through in one go instead of doing it piecemeal. And you could argue that most apps will need all of the widgets in the core set anyway. In the Zimbra product, we've done a lot of little tricks to help improve the download of resources (e.g. source, images, etc) for a variety of clients. Some of these tricks are the standard MO for JavaScript programmers, while others are based on experience and browser usage. Here's a list of some of them: * source is "jammed" together into a single file, removing comments and extraneous whitespace * icon images are merged into a single image and coupled with CSS to display them properly * images are pre-loaded to avoid browsers making multiple trips for the same image (because even though it's in the cache, some browsers -- and I won't name names ;) -- don't realize that immediately) In the end, it's a judgement call between which approach you take. -- Andy Clark * Zimbra * [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
