> I use a ~100 line long DOM diffing algorithm
Since this is not vDOM diffing (which most JS frameworks nowadays provide) can you help share the algorithm if its already out in the open / non-proprietary?
Since this is not vDOM diffing (which most JS frameworks nowadays provide) can you help share the algorithm if its already out in the open / non-proprietary?
It's not really a general purpose diffing algorithm. It probably doesn't handle every corner case as it only does what I need it to do in the few places I actually need it.
Basically, I use diffing because it's simple. I don't want to mess around with manually updating whatever content I want to update, and I don't want to be forced to generate a specially crafted piece of HTML so that it's updatable. This way I only have to have only one function that updates the current page in-place by diffing, and I can use it everywhere I need to.
Also, have you compared the performance of whatever you're doing with a simple PJAX-like approach? Considering that browsers are very good at parsing HTML, I wonder how fast that would be compared to doing quite a lot of DOM calls, which you seem to be doing (?). I'd definitely be interested in that comparison.
That's exactly what I don't want to do, since it's extra complexity and extra work on my part. (:
> Also, have you compared the performance of whatever you're doing with a simple PJAX-like approach? Considering that browsers are very good at parsing HTML, I wonder how fast that would be compared to doing quite a lot of DOM calls, which you seem to be doing (?).
Nope, sorry, I haven't done any benchmarks. From what I've tested the performance is great. If the pages where I use it were heavier then maybe I'd have performance problems, but so far I don't.