[Dojo-interest] how to improve grid sorting speed

[Earl Hood]

On July 21, 2009 at 11:20, "G. Sharon Yang" wrote:

> Please be patient for the first-time loading, as this is built in
> Adobe Flex, I believe.

Which requires the Adobe flash plugin to render.

> If you click any header(for example, Year,  Model, Trim....) in the
> grid, the sorting render is almost immediately done. Actionscript is
> used in Flex, and Actionscript is actually in the same family of
> Javascript, which all belong to ECMA. Why is it so fast in Flex/Flash?
> I used Flex for a short period of time before and have no real
> knowledge about its internal structure. Just wonder if Flex/Flash is
> independent of browser?

It is.  I believe one can cross-communicate between Flash and
the browser, but all the rendering you are seeing is done by
the Flash plugin.

--ewh