IE beats firefox in resize speed?

**TheBuzzer** · 27 Jan 2010 3:43 PM

I just realized in the showcase. if you resize your main browser window. It takes a little while for firefox to change while in ie it changes almost instant.

Isn't firefox suppose to have faster javascript so whats up with the resizing of the window ?

**sven** · 27 Jan 2010 3:47 PM

Isn't firefox suppose to have faster javascript so whats up with the resizing of the window ?

Thats exactly the problem. Everybody talks about javascript speed. The thing that takes most of the time is dom manipulation, and here IE is faster

**TheBuzzer** · 27 Jan 2010 4:39 PM

Does this apply to gwt?
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/art...31567&seqNum=5

this says some dom optimizing techniques. However gwt is a java to javascript compiler.

So maybe the code will auto apply tech like instend of

get(i).get(j).setLogo("A LOGO");
get(i).get(j).setName("A NAME");

it might be faster doing

MyWidget thewidget = get(i).get(j);
thewidget.setLogo("A LOGO");
thewidget.setName("A NAME");

will there be a different in speeds ?

**Colin Alworth** · 1 Apr 2010 8:51 AM

Originally Posted by TheBuzzer

Does this apply to gwt?
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/art...31567&seqNum=5

this says some dom optimizing techniques. However gwt is a java to javascript compiler.

So maybe the code will auto apply tech like instend of

get(i).get(j).setLogo("A LOGO");
get(i).get(j).setName("A NAME");

it might be faster doing

MyWidget thewidget = get(i).get(j);
thewidget.setLogo("A LOGO");
thewidget.setName("A NAME");

will there be a different in speeds ?

It will definitely be faster to only call .get(int) twice instead of four times, especially if you dont turn on disableCastChecking in GWT 2.0. The compiler probably isn't smart enough to figure out that no other code can possibly change those arrays, but this would be worth trying out to test it.

**meroy** · 1 Apr 2010 9:31 AM

Adding a DOCTYPE will increase performance for Firefox. We are seeing this with FF 3.6. The increase is up to 40%. It's noticeable. This includes resizing.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

**Colin Alworth** · 1 Apr 2010 11:23 AM

Keep in mind that adding strict doctype can have some pretty drastic performance issues in IE though, especially if you have much in the way of tables. I don't have hard numbers, but our main concern appeared to stem from trying to get the offsetHeight of lots of dom elts in IE.

**meroy** · 1 Apr 2010 5:24 PM

Yes, you are correct. It's not always easy to come up with the HTML DOCTYPE/header so that all browsers perform at their best.

**steffenk** · 4 Apr 2010 9:10 AM

So i guess the browsers are not aware of HTML5?

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