Hi James,

I'm pretty sure that links are part of the problem.
To verify this, try replacing all <a> tags with e.g. <span> and see if
you can spot any difference in response time.
Alternatively, try replacing/commenting out ajax components/behaviors
on your page to prevent wicket-ajax.js from being pulled into the
page.

cheers, Peter

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM, James Carman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Peter,
> I have experienced similar problems just recently.  I didn't narrow it down
> to the fact that the links were the problem, as you have, though!  I have
> been racking my brains trying to figure this thing out.  My page is similar,
> a table with lots of cells in them that are links.  I've turned off CSS and
> other stuff trying to find the bottleneck.  I didn't think for a moment that
> it might be the links.
>
> James
>
> 2009/4/16 Peter Gardfjäll <[email protected]>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am working on a wicket application intended to be executed both on
>> FF3 and IE7.
>> While working on this application I have discovered that the rendering
>> of some pages are a lot slower in IE.
>> The pages that were significantly slower on IE have a couple of things
>> in common: they are ajax-enabled and have lots of links.
>> These pages all appear to freeze for a while after all data has been
>> transferred, but before the page becomes responsive.
>>
>> The reason (or at least one of the reasons) is that wicket-ajax.js,
>> which gets pulled in whenever an Ajax component/behavior is added to a
>> page, registers a function
>> (addDomReadyEvent(Wicket.Focus.attachFocusEvent)) that traverses all
>> {input,select,a,textarea,button} tags in the DOM tree when the page
>> has been loaded.
>>
>> I timed this function for one of my pages (containing a single big
>> table with around 300 rows, with each row having about six links).
>> When the function is registered, the fireDomReadyHandlers in
>> wicket-event.js takes 2400 ms to execute, compared to 700 ms when not
>> registered. In firefox, the corresponding numbers are about 470 ms and
>> 400 ms.
>>
>> Hence, there seems to be quite a performance penalty involved in
>> loading ajax pages with lots of links in IE7.
>> I'm a bit worried about this overhead, particularly since I have a
>> rather fast machine (a lot better than most of the end users anyway).
>> I would not be surprised if clients see double page load times.
>>
>> Have anyone on this list experienced similar problems?
>> Is this a known issue? (I have not been able to find anything similar
>> on the mailing list)
>> Any suggestions or pointers are welcome.
>>
>> best regards, Peter
>>
>> /PS By the way, I am using wicket 1.3.5.
>>
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