Re: optimizing CFIDE for cfform

2010-08-31 Thread Claude Schnéegans
>>If jQuery is too difficult for a dev May be "too difficult" is not the right term, I would say "needlessly complex". Personally I do all my Ajax stuff with only two functions, on for method GET, one for a POST. About 40 lines of code, including a function to display a dump in a new window in

Re: optimizing CFIDE for cfform

2010-08-31 Thread Michael Grant
If jQuery is too difficult for a dev I posit that that dev should not be a dev. ;) On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Raymond Camden wrote: > > I'm a huge fan of jQuery as well - but remember that for a _lot_ of > folks, jQuery is going to be far too difficult. CF's Ajax stuff > provide a _super

Re: optimizing CFIDE for cfform

2010-08-31 Thread Raymond Camden
I'm a huge fan of jQuery as well - but remember that for a _lot_ of folks, jQuery is going to be far too difficult. CF's Ajax stuff provide a _super_ easy way to do Ajaxy stuff. :) On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Gerald Guido wrote: > >>>The only way to reduc ethat is you use your own solution

Re: optimizing CFIDE for cfform

2010-08-31 Thread Peter Boughton
>However don;t forget that these files are only loaded once and then are >cached by the browser. Not guaranteed in all cases, and also the first impression can be the most important one, so definitely worth looking at a custom solutionm based on jQuery (or other established framework) Also, ma

Re: optimizing CFIDE for cfform

2010-08-31 Thread Gerald Guido
>>The only way to reduc ethat is you use your own solution instead of the built in ones, +1. I am not a fan of CF's Ajax stuff for just that reason. CF form yes. CFForm is only 15k to 30k depending on your version of CF. But once you start getting into the AJAX-y stuff CF seems to use monolithic

Re: optimizing CFIDE for cfform

2010-08-31 Thread Russ Michaels
The only way to reduc ethat is you use your own solution instead of the built in ones, then you can choose a smaller JS library. However don;t forget that these files are only loaded once and then are cached by the browser. Russ Michaels www.cfmldeveloper.com - FREE cfml hosting for developers O

optimizing CFIDE for cfform

2010-08-31 Thread Steve Logan
I'm becoming a little obsessed with that damn YSlow meter trying to wring some more performance out of our web server. My last hangup is the 20 javascript and CSS files that a having a simple cfform and cfwindow causes to load. Is there any tips for reducing that or are all 20 files really nec