Actually, I've done some tests where I just make a small div with nothing in it, set it to a fixed width and height, and it still has poor performance.
I think I may need to mock up some simple test cases. On Oct 14, 3:20 pm, Louis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently worked on a project that used a lot of draggable items > combined with some sorting functionality. > > There seemed to be major performance issues with FireFox 2 when we > tried calculating things on the fly, as the items were dragged. The > main culprit of this kind of problem is widths and heights of the > elements you are dragging. > > eg if all the items that could be dragged and sorted were different > heights, that couldn't be a fixed value in CSS. jQuery would have to > calculate all the heights of the items whilst performing the drag and > sort, thus resulting in poor performance. > > On Oct 14, 6:59 am, chadmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Firefox 2.0, Linux, I'm seeing horrible performance issues on a > > draggable div. I thought it might be due to images in the div, but I > > removed all of that and even a simple div with little content performs > > poorly. Interestingly enough the demo on the jqueryUI site works > > great. This makes me think it's something else on my page. > > > My question is: what kinds of things could effect the performance of > > the draggable?