I experienced this, yes. In my case it was the Themeroller Dev tool which was slowing things down. Additionally, I wasn't able to download any themes. I'd say it's probable that the Themeroller and Dev tool are being updated at this time.
On May 2, 4:08 pm, "Michael Geary" <m...@mg.to> wrote: > It sounds like you must be loading some JavaScript files directly from > jqueryui.com. Instead of that, you should load the files from your own > server or use Google's copies: > > http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ > > If you would post a link to your site, I'm sure someone can give you more > specifics. > > -Mike > > > From: stasch > > > I was surprised to today to discover that my site was running > > much slower than usual (3 to 4 times slower!). Most of the > > delay was spent with the message 'waiting for jqueryui.com'. > > This really freaked me out. First of all what gives the > > jquery folks the right to ping their site from their code? > > Second of all, if they're going to do that they'd better make > > sure that the site they are pinging is super fast. > > Can anybody enlighten me as to what is going on here? Better > > yet, how can I remove that code from my jquery library? I > > can't afford to have this kind of performance hit due to > > uncontrollable 'features' like this in my code. And if I'm > > legally bound to keep that code in the library please advise > > me so that I can go back to Prototype. Totally unacceptable!