[Solar-talk] using js

[Rodrigo Moraes]

On 8/30/07, Jeff Surgeson wrote:
> Hi Rodrigo
>
> Thanks for the advice, makes sense. Used prototype and scriptaculous because I
> found a nice image fader/lightbox thingy that did what i wanted it to, and
> seen those js lib's are part of Solar it made sense for me to use them.

For the fader/lightbox thingy there are equivalent (and smaller)
alternatives to Lightbox, but it makes sense to stick with what Solar
adopts.

> Just thought I was not using them correctly as it is verrrrrry slow.

Aren't you using the minimized version of prototype/scriptaculous?
Note that there's a scripts-min directory in /Solar/App/Public. For
production, you should use those scripts; they are much smaller.
Anyway, as said they will add at least 80kb to your page load.

-- rodrigo