<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>After spending the most of this week reading about optimization of web apps I started compiling custom scripts for openlayers, GeoExt.js and Ext.js.</div><div><br></div><div>As this is the GeoExt forum iŽd like to ask if there is a list/App which I can use firstly to check which libraries are actually being used in my applications and if there is anything to give an indication of which dependencies there are. </div><div><br></div><div>I found the trial and error method of compiling
all three API's incredibly time consuming and frustrating due to the fact that one can never be sure if the app will work after the custom build.This means the normal routine would be</div><div><br></div><div>1. build new script</div><div>2. copy script into directory</div><div>3. debug app ( which entails testing every single function/tool/combination of function calls built into the map)</div><div>4. repeat step 3 for IE6. IE7. IE8. IE9, Firefox 3, Firefox4, Firefox5, Chrome, Opera</div><div><br></div><div>There must be some programming guru who has thought about this already, or am I just doing it wrong. I would assume that most people are pretty happy with the long loading times.....but having to wait up to 30 seconds for an app to load in IE is not acceptable web practice.</div><div><br></div><div>(btw. Why <i>is</i> IE soooo slow?)</div><div><br></div><div>yours</div><div><br></div><div>Rob</div></div></div><div
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