[Javascript] Efficiency of innerHTML over DOM tree manipulation
Matt Barton
javascript at mattbarton.org
Wed Jun 28 11:02:55 CDT 2006
tedd wrote:
> Do you have an url to show us?
>
> That might be quicker for us to see what the problem is.
>
Unfortunately I don't, because that would be very handy. It's not
publically viewable anywhere - it's an intranet application.
I'm pretty certain I know what the problem is - it's generating some
(deliberately) extremely complicated pages, and a fair amount of page
generation, after loading the page, in javascript. I'm after finding
out the best way to make that as efficient as possible.
Everyone's comments on page redesign are well meaning, but ultimtely not
what I'm after - these are by neccessity very large pages.
I've managed any number of speed increases through caching element
templates and data arrays in a static frame, so some comments that have
been made are things that I have already done.
Ultimately, without meaning to sound ungrateful, when I asked my
question, I was specifically not asking "how do I make my page quicker",
I was asking which of the two methods I proposed was the most efficient.
I guess like others have said, I'm going to have to benchmark it for
myself to a degree, although I've read what ppk has done, and that is
very very interesting.
Thanks all.
Matt
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