On Aug 4, 2013 6:14 AM, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 August 2013 21:06, John Vandenberg jayvdb@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