> Hi Jeremy,

> It's definitely true that a lot of wiring like that can indeed slow it
> down in a browser with a slower javascript engine.

> I do think the best solution is something like a hard wiring event,
> maybe a hard_events attribute that can attempt to intelligently assign
> events to html onclick attributes and the like.

> An alternative you could try to use without reworking the nitrogen
> elements is to use the #api element and then make the links with
> directly typed links.

> IE

> body() ->
>   wf:wire(#api { name=my_postback, tag=links }),
>   [
>      "<a href=\"javascript:;\"
> onclick=\"page.my_postback('link1')\">Link 1</a>",
>      "<a href=\"javascript:;\" onclick=\"page.my_postback('link2')\">Link
> 2</a>"
>   ].

> api_event(my_postback, links, Args) ->
>    do_something_with(Args).

> That's at least a way to avoid having to deal with the slowdown of
> that many links and all the generated javascript associated with
> wiring events, though I admit it's not exactly the most
> straightforward approach.

> -Jesse

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Jeremy Raymond <jeraym...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > From what I can tell Nitrogen wires link post backs by running some
> > JavaScript on the client when the page loads. I have some pages with
> > hundreds of links that have postback and it's hella slow on IE.  Is there
> > any alternate way to wire the postbacks (maybe hard wire it somehow in
> via a
> > script action on the link)?

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