Re:Rendering Backbone Collections with DocumentFragment
by trebor on Monday April 15, 2013 @10:58AM
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Technically, even if you render outside the visible area you still incur reflows/repaints. A fragment isn't rendered at all, but lets you build the entire collection as HTML once then do just one reflow/repaint to add the whole fragment to the DOM.
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Re:Rendering Backbone Collections with DocumentFragment
by wwarnerandrew on Monday April 15, 2013 @12:25PM
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What about using something like jquery detach? Then you could, when rendering, detach the element, render all the content, subviews, and re-append it. That shouldn't trigger reflows, right?
Re:Rendering Backbone Collections with DocumentFragment
by trebor on Monday April 15, 2013 @01:52PM
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Correct. So far as I know, the way jQuery detach works is to remove it from the DOM and then return the individual element. The element could act as a fragment, because it can contain children, and then be reappended to the DOM.
Re:Rendering Backbone Collections with DocumentFragment
by dmethvin on Monday April 15, 2013 @02:01PM
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Right, and even better than a document fragment since fragments have both unusual semantics and API limitations that normal elements do not (e.g., no getElementsByTagName or getElementById).