Re: the RPG problem - adrift in the PC-web wind

On 3/14/2012 10:44 AM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

From: Joe Pluta
My product design application which uses about 300 widgets made
up of some 1000 HTML elements in a 12-pane UI (all of which are
collapsable) takes about two seconds to load from XML on the host.

Have you tried it on an iPad or Android tablet? I seem to recall reading that iPad sales have eclipsed PC sales. The iPad is the hottest topic in our market (K-12) schools. My former business partner based his product on Adobe Flash in order to get the richest UI experience possible and he is really in a fix now because it won't run on the iPad, and won't run well on Android tablets either.

I gather that your widgets are loaded from XML, and you say that part is quick. But how much JavaScript do you download initially?

-Nathan

I've run it in Safari and it runs great. I haven't tried an iPad, but I could. I'd have to borrow one from one of the ladies in Casa del Pluta; I don't have one myself. My youngest gets one in school next year. This might also be the tipping point for me getting an Android tablet; I got my eldest one for Christmas, but I didn't get one for me.

And just to be clear: the widgets are created by the application, they are populated from XML. The initial load is a few seconds, but that including caching the lookup tables, which is a couple of MB of data.

Joe