Please don't flame - I'm not trying to start a tiles vs frames debate. If bandwidth is absolutely critical then you may want to consider (shock! horror!) frames or use inline IFrames. Tiles is great but will produce a bit of extra output over frames as it will generally be used to render the entire page, header, body, menu footer etc. Images should be cached by the browser, as will other add-in files if you use references to external .js files etc.
I think it will be unlikely that you could save much bandwidth by using frames but you may be able to reduce the bandwidth a little - if you really, really have to - but this will be offset by the (significantly?) increased difficulty of managing and developing with frames, particularly. Personally I do not favour frames. Tiles makes it much, much easier to manage layouts but is analagous to a jsp:include (but oh so much more powerful - see link in Cedric's email for earlier thread) so will not, in itself save bandwidth. You can still use IFrames with tiles and this combination can be great for say a menu that needs to flick between a few options - I guess you could use javascript to dynamically update the reference in an IFrame and this will save bandwidth. H. -----Original Message----- From: Puneet Agarwal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2003 16:45 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: TILES - Network Traffic... I am quite new to TILES and have a query abt the way it renders HTML pages. Does it embed the javaScript code into the HTML page itself or it has generic JavaScript Library files, and includes them using a JavaScript include directive in HTML for JavaScript file, so that it could be cached at client side and lead to smaller payload on network front. If not is there any other advantage of using TILES. For our project network traffic is the biggest concern, the decision to use TILES greatly depend on the above. Your view shall help us greatly. Cheers Puneet --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
