{"id":318,"date":"2008-12-30T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T15:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2008-12-30T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T15:47:45","slug":"javascript-speed-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/javascript-speed-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Javascript Speed Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part two of yesterdays Javascript Speed post, I have an interresting link. <a href=\"http:\/\/mootools.net\">MooTools<\/a>, another Javascript library, has a speed comparison page up <a href=\"http:\/\/mootools.net\/slickspeed\/\">here<\/a>. I had looked at MooTools a while back when I put up the slideshow piece on the front page of the site. I didn&#8217;t look into it too much, but it seemed small and compact. Anyway, the speed comparison is interresting. If you go to the site, press the &#8220;start tests&#8221; button in the upper right to see the differences. I got here while I was looking into <a href=\"http:\/\/jquery.com\/\">jQuery<\/a>. Prototype gets smacked in the speed test. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>This post is from 2007, but was already complaining that <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a> was going to use Prototype instead of jQuery for version 2.0. (which was just released a month ago) It would appear to me though that WordPress went and switched to jQuery. Looking at the WordPress docs, I found this page on <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/AJAX_in_Plugins\">AJAX<\/a>, and it talks about jQuery.\u00ac\u2020 When I look at the source of one of the admin pages, there is jQuery references all over, but nothing about prototype.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like WordPress has switched to jQuery, and if I am looking at making plugins for wordpress, I might want to think about moving to jQuery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part two of yesterdays Javascript Speed post, I have an interresting link. MooTools, another Javascript library, has a speed comparison page up here. I had looked at MooTools a while back when I put up the slideshow piece on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/javascript-speed-tests\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[101],"tags":[16,115,116,15],"series":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pffAy-58","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}