really want to use dojo and dijit, but it takes minutes to load, even for a simple test page, and even in 3 different browsers, and even for the standard demo pages. firefox even freezes for a minute of two.
for example, see:
http://playak.com/dojo/dijit/demos/form.html
any clues on how to avoid this would be highly appreciated, as i really can't use it this way...
You probably need to do a
You probably need to do a custom build to consolidate the number of HTTP requests into just a couple of layer requests:
http://dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/part-4-meta-dojo/package-syste...
thanks, but...
...i don't get it. i'm just trying to load a simple dijit demo script, and it takes minutes
to load, freezing my whole browser. it's not like i programmed something myself that i
would have to optimize....
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jeroen
http://playak.com
It looks like you are using
It looks like you are using at least 13 dijit widgets on the page, and the dojo/dijit code is highly componentized -- each component is a separate HTTP request. Looking at the number of requests for your site indicates around 65 module files being requested. The default loader behavior is to load each module using a synchronous XMLHttpRequest call, which probably explains the freezing effect.
The custom build process combines the modules into a very small set of files you load, dramatically increasing performance. An intermediate thing you can do is to do dojo.require("dijit.dijit") and dojo.require("dijit.dijit-all") as the first two require calls. Those two files are layers generated by the standard build, and should help speed up the loading of your page.
But for the best performance, a custom build is suggested.