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By Christian at Tue 10 Feb 09:14
Interesting read! In your example I guess you could also slim down the initialization and then do all the expensive stuff for a single element the first time the user tries to drag something.
Using a loader will probably make 20ms a fair wait. The upside of this is that you’ll probably never have to make everything draggable, thus saving some potential memory loss (unless you somewhere free up this.element = el)
On another point: you should use the syntax highlighting at all times, not just mouseover, makes the easier to read.