Many parts of the VCL web interface use the Dojo javascript framework, which has a nice facility for incrementally loading the classes needed for a particular page through the dojo.require(...) function. On some pages, however, the number of separate GET requests grows rather large. This makes the pages much less responsive, especially when a page is loaded for the first time.
With dojo, it is also possible to create custom 'profiles', which are groups of dojo classes that are assembled into a single javascript library. More information about this is available here: http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/quickstart/custom-builds.html I assembled about a dozen of these 'profiles' for our VCL installation, and with some modification to the .ht-inc/utils.php page, this change has resulted in a dramatic improvement in the loading and rendering of the vcl web pages. Is there any thought for moving in this direction for an upcoming release? I have created a JIRA issue for this at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-505 where I have included some more information as well as the code I used to implement this in our VCL setup. Best wishes, Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College (413) 542-5451 acob...@amherst.edu
