[pmwiki-users] Re: Nice edit buttons slowing things down?

[chr at home.se]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:20:36AM +0100, chr at home.se wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Neil Herber wrote:
> > 
> > > At 2005-01-31  10:57 PM +0100, chr at home.se is rumored to have said:
> > > >Am I the only one who has noticed that it takes a second or two longer to
> > > >edit a page because of the graphical icons above the edit form?
> > > >
> > > >If this is verifiable, I'd just like to say that I hope they wont' become
> > > >enabled by default in the standard PmWiki distrubtions. (To be honest,
> > > >they annoy me :-)
> > > 
> > > I have not seen any delay that I can measure.
> > 
> > I wanted to meausre the delay, but couldn't activate the GUI buttons. How 
> > do I do that? (I did $EnableGUIButtons = 1; i config.php as per the 
> > instructions in sample-config.php)
> 
> $EnableGUIButtons = 1 should be sufficient; is there an $EditMessageFmt
> variable in your $PageEditFmt definition for the buttons to be able to
> appear?

Huh.. I don't think so. Anyway, they show up if I do a vanilla 
installation of pmwiki so I guess there's some conflict with my skin or 
something.

> To answer the original question; yes, I've sometimes noticed a slight
> delay the first time I display an edit form with the buttons 
> (as it retrieves the images), but after that I don't notice any delay.
> Perhaps your browser isn't caching the images?  Or perhaps Opera is just
> slow about executing the JavaScript code that places the buttons into
> the edit page?

I don't know. The difference wasn't very noticeable when I ran it on a 
server at home, so maybe it's more apparent when the connection to the 
server is slower?

As for caching the images, I think Opera does that. Running the javascript 
could be slow though, my computer isn't very fast... (300 MHz).

/Christian

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