New User Experience

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Nick Sabalausky<a at a.a> wrote:

> I've been browsing through the html/js code for that page. Looks it what it
> does is asynchronously load an XML representation (generated by the server)
> of all the project information and then, on the client-side, that XML is
> parsed and used to generate the project list/links. Of course, I can't be
> certain just from looking at that where most of the time is being spent,
> client or server, but judging by the fact that I'm stubbornly holding on to
> FF2 (yea, I really, really hate FF3, and I am really, really picky) and
> nobody else seems to be complaining about the loading, I'd guess it's
> probably mostly the client code that's taking all the time.

I use FF3 and there's still a considerable delay (~7s).  Of course,
it's _the Internet_ over a questionable Comcast connection.  Half the
time it takes servers several seconds to respond to static page
requests anyway.