Archive for April, 2012

WordPress and Joomla Scheduler Plugins Updated to v.3.0

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

We would like to announce the release of version 3.0 of the scheduler plugins for WordPress and Joomla!. This release adds some popular features available in dhtmlxScheduler 3.0, such as Map View, Week Agenda View, graggable event details form, and other noticeable enhancements.

Map View

The scheduler WordPress and Joomla! plugins now support integration with Google Maps and allow you to display locations for your events. You can switch on the Map View in the admin panel of the plugin.

Event Calendar Plugin - Map View

Event Calendar Plugin - Map View

 
Week Agenda View

The plugins now support an Outlook-like way to display the agenda in a Week View. This is a great way to show the list of the previous and upcoming events week by week.

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Loading Speed Tests Show The Fastest JavaScript Grid

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

While rich internet technologies are developing and improving, people expect web apps to provide desktop-like performance and user experience. Since data grids are one of the most important part of enterprise web apps, we have decided to check how quickly the popular JavaScript grids are loaded on a page with a large number of rows and columns.

We have tested four grid components:

 

For our tests, we created a demo for each grid that initializes a grid on a page with different number of rows and columns. If you want to make sure that the results are objective and check the loading speed by yourself, download the demo here.

Grid with Large Number of Rows

At first, we set up a demo of each grid that has 10 columns and different number of rows (from 100 to 10,000). We tested the grids in IE9 and the latest Google Chrome. The charts below show the time of initialization of the grid on a page in dependence to the number of rows.

Results in IE9:

Dojo jqGrid Ext JS dhtmlxGrid
100 rows 308 ms 60 ms 265 ms 51 ms
500 rows 312 ms 61 ms 282 ms 58 ms
1,000 rows 324 ms 63 ms 305 ms 61 ms
5,000 rows 368 ms 94 ms 512 ms 65 ms
10,000 rows 469 ms 143 ms 702 ms 67 ms
Grid Loading Speed - Large Number of Rows

Grid Loading Speed - Large Number of Rows

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