[Yanel-dev] Loading yanel toolbar menus asynchronously

[Guillaume Déflache]

Michael Wechner schrieb:
> I have a toolbar sub-menu which does not scale well for whatever reason 
> and it is hard to improve, and hence

I guess if the menus are so big that it becomes a performance problem, 
they also probably are a usability problem as well, which no 
optimisation would solve anyway!
Unless it's a "combinatory explosion" problem, that you have 10 menu 
entries, each having 10 menu entries, each of thoise having 10, etc. 
(like what probably happens now to a lesser extent in Yanel with the 
revisions submenu) Is that it?

> it would nice if one could load specific toolbar menus asynchronously. I 
> mean the menu is only actually loaded if
> one clicks on it.
> 
> Any idea how we could best implement this? I guess it needs two parts:
> 
> - Client side javascript
> - Server side API for retrieving menu content
> 
> WDYT?

Makes sense. Might also be the occasion to also think about I18N and 
Java API (we would only really need a ReSTy HTTP API for your current 
problem) for the menus.