Speeding up initial page load time with static HTML in a multi form application

[George Georgovassilis]

Hello all,

A while ago we had to work on a GWT application with the requirement that the initial page should be visible in under 1 sec, but since it was a single module, multi form application this requirement would hold for all forms. We initially solved this by having all form markup in the initial page HTML, showing and hiding forms with CSS according to the current history token. But this created a second problem when a history token was included in the initial URL: the browser would first load the HTML showing the initial form and only switch to the correct form once the javascript was loaded. We then solved this "flash of content" with a short inline javascript that would parse the history token and globally modify CSS so that the right form would show up even before the corresponding HTML was loaded. If you are interested you can read the details here [1]

[1] http://georgovassilis.blogspot.com/2012/03/speeding-up-initial-page-view-of-ajax.html

[Ahmet BÜTÜN]

Hi  George,

Thanks for the great tip.

2012/3/25 George Georgovassilis <g.georgo...@gmail.com>

Hello all,

A while ago we had to work on a GWT application with the requirement that the initial page should be visible in under 1 sec, but since it was a single module, multi form application this requirement would hold for all forms. We initially solved this by having all form markup in the initial page HTML, showing and hiding forms with CSS according to the current history token. But this created a second problem when a history token was included in the initial URL: the browser would first load the HTML showing the initial form and only switch to the correct form once the javascript was loaded. We then solved this "flash of content" with a short inline javascript that would parse the history token and globally modify CSS so that the right form would show up even before the corresponding HTML was loaded. If you are interested you can read the details here [1]

[1] http://georgovassilis.blogspot.com/2012/03/speeding-up-initial-page-view-of-ajax.html

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