Droppable performance

Droppable performance


Hello list,
I'm working with a page which has many droppables (~250) accepting the
same class of draggable. The delay when the draggable is moved, due to
the offsets calculation, was unacceptable (several seconds) on slower
browsers (IE and FF2, not so good on FF3 also).
My workaround has been to disable the droppables, group the elements
in containers and create droppables for the container; then enable/
disable the contained droppables in the containers' over and out
methods. Works like a charm, but it requires me to manually calculate
the offsets before enabling the inner droppables, keep track of the
child objects, etc, in all places where I want the functionality. I
wonder if this behaviour could be somehow standardized, since I
presume the need is not so uncommon; or maybe there's a better way?
Thanks,
Ivan