Server-side vs. Client-side (AJAX) Loading
问题 I was wondering what is considered best practice. Let's say I have a dropdown select widget. Should it be preloaded with content when the page is served up from the server or once it is loaded, should an AJAX request be made to retrieve the contents and then populate it? I kinda like the idea of loading it empty and issuing an AJAX call to retrieve the contents. But is that going to result in slower page loading times. Especially if the page has several widgets that need to be loaded with