Tag Archives: Performance

Quick Performance Tip: jQuery and addClass

By Zach Leatherman | Published: June 30, 2009
Abstractions are helpful and dangerous. But the more we know about a library’s internals, the less danger we’ll be in later. Here’s an issue I ran into where I had assumed that jQuery would be optimized for this case, but it wasn’t. I’ll go over my bad assumption and how to workaround it. As of [...]
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Faster YUI DataTable with 5 Lines of Code

By Zach Leatherman | Published: December 27, 2007
Holy Reflows Batman! The typical usage of a DataTable in the Yahoo User Interface JavaScript library involves passing a string into the constructor signifying the ID attribute of the container you want to attach the DataTable to. However, the YUI DataTable loves the DOM and creating nodes individually using DOM methods. Normally that’d be fine, [...]
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