Hi Jim On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 9:03:57 PM UTC+2, Jim Porter wrote: > The database backend was a similar case; we were able to copy it > wholesale from the old app, but only because we'd spent time pre-NGA > cleaning up the code. In fact, for the database, I think Service Workers > specifically made some things *harder*. One nice feature of the old > Music app was that we displayed results as we enumerated over them from > indexedDB. Now, we have to wait until the entire query is finished so we > can send the results back in one chunk. I've seen some talk that further > enhancements to Service Workers will resolve this, but I'm not sure how > soon we'll have it. It also remains to be seen how badly this will > affect performance.
I suppose the problem you have now is that you make a request and you can not stream the response. Isn't it? > > There are certainly some nice platform features in NGA, like web > components (which I've been waiting for ever since I used XBL in XUL). > However, I don't think any specific platform feature made the NGA app > better. These features provide us some new ways to do things, but on a > high level, they're things we should have been doing already. I think it > would be unwise to treat any part of the technology as the reason the > NGA Music app is better. It was the people working on it. > > - Jim _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
