Performance is more acceptable when not in Dev mode, but for small texts, we're looking at the browser hanging for 2-3 seconds while it renders. Would be keen too, to understand why dev mode is so much slower! Chris
On Oct 30, 1:52 pm, Chris <christopher.burr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All > > I have this application where I need to display lines of related text > one under the other. For e.g., the English text would be on top, and > then the Greek would be below. The text is split into phrases, so for > example, the Greek is not necessarily in the right word order. All > that matters is that the meaning of the greek word matches the meaning > of the english word. > > How would you go about displaying this. I decided to go for a div > containing child divs for each word. Each parent div then floats to > the left, so that the wrapping of the text at the end of the page is > maintained. > > The problem I have is 2 fold. For even small texts (~600 words), it > takes a while to generate the correct DOM (600 parent divs at the > minimum + for 2 lines 1200 child divs!). Are there ways of speeding > this up? At the moment, I take each word-set as it comes in and render > the div into the DOM tree. Would it be faster to do everything off the > DOM and then attach the whole lot at the end? I believe I tried that > months ago and it didn't seem to help much. > > Secondly, I get the impression it takes a while to deserialise the > response from the server. For e.g. I have a response that is roughly > 41Kb from the server, and it seems to take approximately 20 seconds to > deserialise. > > All this is in DEV mode. In normal mode things are faster, but still > not fast enough... > Any ideas? I have a few thoughts, but I think that fundamentally this > might just not have a nice solution. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.