Rank: Newbie Groups: Member
Joined: 9/4/2007 Posts: 1
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We are currently looking for a light weight calendar for our applications. Light meaning how much resources it uses when loading up on your web app. Do you have any supporting documentation regarding this?
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Rank: Administration Groups: Administration
Joined: 5/27/2007 Posts: 24,217
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Hi,
Our Calendar/DatePicker is a high end component packed with features so I wouldn't say it's light weighted. :) It renders roughly the same amount of DHTML contents (5 to 8K, depending on styles) as other high end Calendars.
The amount of Javascript it uses is hard to compare because we have a modulized Javascript library. Unlike some other vendors on the market that releases each component in a separate DLL, we release all components inside a single DLL. Because of this, we are able to have some basic Javascript files that are shared by multiple components (for example, we have one Javascript file that handles "popups", which handles drop down for both Menu and DatePicker). This causes the total size of Javascript files used by a single component to appear slightly larger than other components (because the shared Javascript file also contains some code for other components), but if you use multiple components from us, then it shows a tremendous benefit, as similar code are not repeated by each component. Also, not all Javascript files are shared ---- for example, one component can use 5 Javascript files and the other can only use 3, with 2 of the lowest shared. This means while Calendar shares some Javascript files with Menu, it definitely does not bring down Javascript files used only by the Menu.
Thanks
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