<p>Does anyone know much about the Asp.Net webconfig element <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb513840.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer"></a>?
I'm looking at it because I'm implementing an MS Ajax updatepanel in an existing site, 
and after doing some looking around, on the web I'm not finding a lot of info about it. </p>

<p>And to avoid the flood of replies telling me how inefficient the update panel is, and that it's not actually providing any benefit etc. etc. I know! Let's say I've got my reasons for using it and leave it at that.</p>

<p>I guess my main question is;, will setting enableCompression="true" and enableCaching="true" help the performace of my update panel in any way?</p>

[{'answer_id': 79559, 'author': 'Quintin Robinson', 'author_id': 12707, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/12707', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': True, 'text': "<p>Given the traversing of the DOM that is actually happening with an update panel it's generally not the content that is hindering performance.. it is the PC/Browser.</p>\n\n<p>I know this is exactly what you aren't looking for but unless your panel contains a significant amount of data then compression and caching isn't going to help you terribly.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 357038, 'author': 'Wavel', 'author_id': 13413, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13413', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I took this from the scriptresourcehandler documentation:\nBy default, the ScriptResourceHandler class compresses and caches embedded script files for Internet Explorer 7.</p>\n\n<p>So I don't think you'll see any difference if you set enableCompression/enableCaching true because it's already happening if you're using IE7.</p>\n"}]
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