> It was working for me well all the weeks :)
> 
> But I am sitting on a 20Mbit connection at home ;) (and mhh, about 
> 100Mbit here at work ;))

<Homer>Mmmm, 20MBit...</Homer>
 
> Please open a bug and suggest the timeout increasement there. 

See http://bugzilla.qooxdoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489

> Gzipping will also be an option. But a further split of the files 
> is IMHO not a good idea. It is already quite fine grained. Even 
> more files will result in slower performance because of the latency 
> which is also relevant.

Note that the latency from here (UK) is actually quite good - for example,
Bootstrap.js came in 140ms. And, once you have navigated round the tree
just a little bit you will have requested all the base-class files anyway
so there will be just one file requested (for the actual node you have
opened). So there will be only a small extra delay from the latency up
front, but a massively reduced delay from getting smaller files when
clicking around the tree (e.g. in the UI section!)

If you implemented a proper caching scheme using the web server
facilities to check file dates, returning "304 - Not Modified" then there
would be little or no delays in opening up the API viewer a second time
(just the latency for those checks).

Maybe I'll try another argument: when initially looking at AJAX packages,
one of the key things we did was looking at the performance including
download time. I think if you want to make qooxdoo look as good as you
possibly can you must address all these issues (are you zipping the
apiviewer script itself, for example?).

It's a tough world out there in the AJAX wars, and only the best (or
perceived best) will survive. You make qooxdoo look worse if there are
performance improvements that you don't take advantage of. Potential
users won't ever look past slow performance to the Wiki pages documenting
ways of improving them, if they decide that qooxdoo isn't good enough in
the first place on the basis of, for example, a slow (or broken!) api
viewer.

You should be aiming to get qooxdoo up on the top of the lists at
sourceforge, like ZK - http://www.zkoss.org/ - it's at number 8 at the
moment at http://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week . That
appears in a summary email sent out to all Sourceforge users each month,
and is a huge selling point ("if lots of people use it, it must be good").
qooxdoo is at 227 at the moment - maybe reduced in impact because you use
your own bug tracker instead of the sourceforge one.

Hugh

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