[jQuery] Re: jQuery speed seems slow

2009-10-15 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
2009/10/14 James : > > Unless your DOM tree is huge and you're trying to select something > massive in one go, the performance difference between a simple jQuery > ID selector (e.g. $("#myID")) vs. a native getElementById selector > should be very negligible, because jQuery uses that same native >

[jQuery] Re: jQuery speed seems slow

2009-10-15 Thread k3liutZu
On Oct 15, 8:42 am, JenniferWalters wrote: > I do agree on smaller DOM trees, a user really is not able to tell the > difference and jQuery is so much easier to code. What Michael and James are trying to tell you is that the jQuery selector for ID (eg. $('#myID')) actually uses document.getEleme

[jQuery] Re: jQuery speed seems slow

2009-10-14 Thread JenniferWalters
Unfortunately the site is internal and I am not able to let you guys get to it. And what you said is correct. Some of the web pages are huge. One has eight tab pages with quite a bit of DOM in them. Another can have a couple of hundred elements that need to be displayed\hidden depending on user

[jQuery] Re: jQuery speed seems slow

2009-10-14 Thread Michael Geary
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:48 PM, James wrote: > Unless your DOM tree is huge and you're trying to select something > massive in one go, the performance difference between a simple jQuery > ID selector (e.g. $("#myID")) vs. a native getElementById selector > should be very negligible, because jQue

[jQuery] Re: jQuery speed seems slow

2009-10-14 Thread James
Unless your DOM tree is huge and you're trying to select something massive in one go, the performance difference between a simple jQuery ID selector (e.g. $("#myID")) vs. a native getElementById selector should be very negligible, because jQuery uses that same native selector. You should demonstr

[jQuery] Re: jQuery speed seems slow

2009-10-14 Thread JenniferWalters
I don't have a specific code snippet that is a problem. I just started using jQuery instead of DOM because everyone speaks of it. I do qutie a bit of Setup stuff at the start of web pages, and I have noticed a tremendous difference in the time a user can begin actually working in the web page wh

[jQuery] Re: jQuery speed seems slow

2009-10-14 Thread Matt Kruse
On Oct 14, 3:33 pm, JenniferWalters wrote: > Are jQuery searches slow versus using DOM? (i.e. > document.getElementById("whatever") ) Of course. jQuery adds many function calls and layers of abstraction when you do $('#whatever') vs. document.getElementById('whatever'). > It seems that it takes