Improving Raphael performance on iOS with CSS transitions
Mark Rhodes, February 11th, 2013
In this post I’ll run through the development of DOM-Raphael, a basic CSS3 based JavaScript library which acts as a replacement for Raphael and can be used to improve performance when running on iOS. The source code for the JavaScript for this post is available on GitHub. The driver behind the creation of this library [...]
Common Windows Phone 7 Performance Challenges
Imported Article, May 10th, 2011
This article aims to collect the most important performance challenges I’ve come across when working on various WP7 projects – the most well known being Visiblox Charts for Windows Phone 7 and Cocktail Flow (On a note, I gave a talk on this…
Announcing Visiblox Charts for Windows Phone 7
Imported Article, February 21st, 2011
We are proud to announce that Visiblox Charts for Windows Phone 7 Beta has been released in version 1.9 of Visiblox Charts and can be downloaded for free here.
CSS Performance Part 3 – Updating Nodes
Luke Page, February 16th, 2011
Introduction In the first two parts I looked at different ways of performing dom manipulation tasks like adding rows to a table and sorting rows in a table. These tend to be quite common since we display data in a table and a dynamic website may wish to show live updates to that data and [...]
Windows Phone 7 Performance Measurements – Emulator vs. Hardware
Colin Eberhardt, February 11th, 2011
This blog post presents a few performance measurements that detail the relative performance of ItemsControl, ListBox and manual addition of elements to the UI. These performance measurements are also compared when ran on the emulator and the real hardware. My early experiences of moving from the WP7 emulator to the real hardware revealed that performance [...]
Visiblox, Visifire, DynamicDataDisplay – Charting Performance Comparison
Colin Eberhardt, December 10th, 2010
A few weeks ago I published a blog post which compared the performance of the Visiblox charts and the Silverlight Toolkit charts. The results indicated that the Visblox charts are considerably faster than the Toolkit charts, however Microsoft’s D…
Css Performance – Part 1
Luke Page, November 30th, 2010
Introduction Over the last month or so, I’ve been interested in website performance. There are a lot of useful tools that exist to help you get the most out the HTML/JavaScript/CSS Technologies – One resource in particular I’ve used is Google Page Speed. Among the recommendation is one to optimise the use of css selectors, [...]
Flex Charts vs Silverlight Charts – a test of Performance
Graham Odds, November 16th, 2010
This post follows on from the comparison of two Silverlight chart libraries produced by my colleague, Colin Eberhardt, by adding an implementation of the simple image processing tool in Flex using the Flex Charting library to the comparison. The results show that the Flex Charts perform easily as well as the Visiblox charts without the [...]
Visiblox Charts vs. Silverlight Toolkit Charts – a test of Performance
Colin Eberhardt, November 8th, 2010
This blog post compares the performance of the Visiblox and Silverlight Toolkit charts using a simple image processing tool to test and illustrate their differences in performance. The results show that the Visiblox charts are approximately 50 – …
JavaScript Array.push Performance
Steven Hall, October 15th, 2010
I was recently reading Google’s JavaScript Style Guide when I came across the following claim: “Note that since assigning values to an array is faster than using push() you should use assignment where possible.” I had always used push to assign a value to the end of an array, so thought I’d investigate this a little [...]