Ivan, I've actually already implemented the above on http://FriendOrFollow.com.
On Oct 15, 4:53 am, "Iván N Paz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> @DustyReagan:
>
> Well.. try your code before without detaching, spend a few minutes on
> your page and hover over EVERY image and see how it performs, do it on
> all browsers as well, do it with some other tabs open, with more
> applications opened, etc... stress your system, and see how well it
> performs, and then, add the code that will detach/destroy the Tips
> instance and test again.... ;-)
>
> Do you have a live demo to take a lookt at it?? BTW, will this be a
> project for the web, a cdrom, Air... what?
>
> Cheers
> Iván
>
> On 10/14/08, DustyReagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I agree that onmouseover is obtrusive, but in this instance, I've
> > chosen obtrusive code to gain performance. I'm open to a less
> > obtrusive solution though, especially if it'll save me disk space.
>
> > Ivan, I've tested it in FireFox, IE7, and Chrome. Works great on
> > those.
>
> > Tom, that makes a ton of sense about IE's event namespace. I
> > understand what you're saying about adding event's by using $
> > ('el').addEvent() I've made an assumption that it will perform as bad
> > as var Tips1 = new Tips($$('.Tips1')); on page load, due the need to
> > traverse the DOM. I could be wrong though, I haven't tested it. Maybe
> > I'll try that tonight.
>
> > Nutron, thanks for the tips! Putting it in a class makes a ton of
> > sense. I'll do that to clean things up.
>
> > No one mentioned an opinion about detaching the element from Tips on
> > mouse out. Do you think that's worth the effort or does MooTools have
> > good garbage collection? I'm planning on running some tests on memory
> > usage later, just wanted to get a general idea from the group.
>
> > Thanks again for the help guys!
>
> > Dusty
>
> > On Oct 14, 3:52 pm, "Iván N Paz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > By doing in-line onclick assignments, it's probably much, much faster.
>
> > > But that would make for javascript that would be very obtrusive....
>
> > > > Event delegation won't work, because you'd have to capture the
> > mouseover
> > > > event for the parent, which probably contains all 3000 of these but is
> > only
> > > > fired when the mouse enters the area the first time.
>
> > > mousemove and check object below (target?) would pose the same
> > > problem/performance issue??
>
> > > Well... anyways.... he seems he found the solution though, hey Dusty,
> > > have you tested it crossbrowser already????
>
> > > Cheers
> > > Iván
>
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