Performance Optimizations

This page lists several Performance Optimizations to speed up page load times when using the plugin.

The source code of this plugin is not distributed in a minified format.
However, it is recommended to make use of Google's Closure Compiler or a similar tool to combine and minify all your application JavaScript files for production use.

Another recommended tool for production use is CSSTidy, to tidy and minify the CSS source.

Google provides a reliable CDN for common Web libraries.
The more websites use this CDN instead of hosting their jQuery libraries on their own server, the more likely it is that client browsers will already have those libraries in their browser cache.
The easiest way to use it is to include the libraries the following way (replace http: with https: for SSL-Websites):

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js">script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.6/jquery-ui.min.js">script>

Alongside the JS libraries, Google also hosts the CSS and accompanying images files for several jQuery UI themes, e.g. the "basic" theme:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.6/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">