is it 'bulky' or will it slow down a frontpage? [#321588]

i love this module and am eager to use it on the homepage of my current site but before i create the whole thing, i'm just wondering if it's considered bulky or heavy in terms of scripts loaded to display and present node content (e.g. with four or five nodes in the display like on the demo site)...it seems quite fast, but then again so do most demo module sites since nothing else is generally enabled...

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Comment #1

Mark Theunissen CreditAttribution: Mark Theunissen commented 15 October 2008 at 14:31

Hi Zilla

It loads three jQuery plugins, which are localScroll, scrollTo and serialScroll. It also loads the slider.js file. These files are only included on pages that will be displaying a Slider.

These files are all tiny (average size 1.6kb).

So I definitely wouldn't call it bulky... ;)

Remember that it's not AJAX enabled, in other words, all the content will be downloaded at once, at the beginning. So that means that if you have 10 slides with huge sizes, these will all come down in the page load. The upside is that moving between slides is really fast, because they are loaded already.

Hope that helps..

Mark

Comment #2

zilla CreditAttribution: zilla commented 15 October 2008 at 18:42

that definitely helps - the content will be just text with a small icon for each slide (sort of a welcome to site here's some stuff you can do here overview)