On Aug 4, 2013 6:14 AM, "David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3 August 2013 21:06, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> p.s. Try VE on 26kbps - that is all my mother can obtain currently,
unless
> she gets satellite, which is too expensive for
her - she lives ~10 kms
from
I would actually be interested to know if new Javascript, new
functionality, things like the VE, etc. are routinely tested on slow
connections. Is there anything like this in place?
I was there yesterday, only briefly so I didnt have time to do any perf
testing, but it was clearly worse compared to the last time I did it. I
suspect ULS is playing its part of the problem, but user doesnt care which
feature is to blame. I am sure there are 'dialup' simulators, but nothing
beats a real modem struggling to avoid dropouts when its the last
connection on a fair dinkum noisey line.
Just consider what the image insertion dialog is doing, and it clear the VE
is not being designed to accomodate dialup users at all. Understandable.
Hopefully soon we'll be able to replace stock widgets with low bandwidth
equivalents.
John