[Catalyst] Preferred Ajax framework

[Toby Corkindale]

Chisel Wright wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:53:50AM +0000, Toby Corkindale wrote:
>> Downsides: Can get quite slow to load pages.
> 
> Yeah, I seem to have been caught out by that. I really like dojo, and
> I've not seen any problems with it ... until some changes were rolled
> out to a staging server.
> Now the page(s) takes ages to load.
> 
> I didn't think that the dojo loading block would be a hit every time.
> Apparently there's a slowdown with just the following:
> 
>   <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
>     dojo.require("dojo.widget.Dialog");
>   </script>
> 
> It only seems to happen with one page, so it might be dojo and existing
> jscript not playing well together - who knows?

The Menubar2 widget used to be a huge time sucker in version 0.3.x, but 
in .4 it became usably quick.