Every developer has to weigh the tradeoffs and decide for himself or herself how to deal with IE. Given market realities, it can be difficult to take a hard-line position of "we don't support IE". But you can try to direct your users to use modern browsers (WebKit is best, Firefox is a distant second, everything else is an also-ran). If they still insist on IE, for whatever backward organizational reasons, try to push them to use the Chrome Frame:
http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/ On that subject, see what happens if you go here in IE: http://wave.google.com On Feb 10, 11:48 am, tjmcc18 <tjmc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have not tried speedtracer yet. It is a good idea to improve > performance in Chrome and Firefox as much as possible, as that could > help in IE. I will also review the amount of processing we are doing > on the client, since I agree that could speed things up. > > Is IE pretty much a no go for GWT for anything more than the most > basic apps? > > On Feb 10, 1:20 pm, Jim Douglas <jdou...@basis.com> wrote: > > > > > Have you profiled your application in Chrome using Speed Tracer? > > >http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/speedtracer/ > > > Even if overall performance is acceptable in Chrome and Firefox, there > > are bottlenecks in any application. If you find and optimize those > > bottlenecks in Speed Tracer, there's a good chance that you will be > > able to improve performane in all browsers. > > > On Feb 10, 9:59 am, tjmcc18 <tjmc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thank you very much for the information. I have no doubt that the > > > quality of the javascript engine plays a large role. In my case, I am > > > using GWT so I have a very limited control over the javascript that is > > > created. I know the performance of IE may never match Firefox, but is > > > there any way to improve it? > > > > -TJ > > > > On Feb 10, 12:48 pm, Jim Douglas <jdou...@basis.com> wrote: > > > > > If you have any influence over the choice of browser, IE7 should no > > > > longer be used. > > > > > But the basic problem is simply the quality of the JavaScript engines > > > > in the various browsers. To see this, go to this page in IE7, IE8, > > > > Chrome, and Firefox and compare the results: > > > > >http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.htmlhttp://webkit.org/perf... > > > > > If your application runs a lot of client-side (JavaScript) code, then > > > > the performance on any given browser will be a factor of the speed of > > > > that browser's JavaScript engine. In my most recent testing on > > > > Windows XP, that boils down to: > > > > > Assign a relative speed of 1X to Chrome and Opera; they are > > > > comparable. > > > > Firefox 3.6.13 is about 3X. > > > > IE8 is about 21X. > > > > > On Feb 10, 9:38 am, tjmcc18 <tjmc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > The problem is in production mode when running the compiled > > > > > javascript. > > > > > > On Feb 10, 12:35 pm, Jeff Schwartz <jefftschwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Is the problem in dev or production? > > > > > > On Feb 10, 2011 12:33 PM, "tjmcc18" <tjmc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > I am working on a GWT application and over time it has become > > > > > > > extremely slow while running in IE7. It still runs very fast in > > > > > > > Firefox3 however. This leads me to believe there must be some GWT > > > > > > > specific programming techniques that while acceptable when > > > > > > > running in > > > > > > > Firefox, cause IE to run very slow. > > > > > > > > I know there are various debuggers and things I can use to > > > > > > > attempt to > > > > > > > find the cause, but has anyone run into this issue where IE is > > > > > > > slow > > > > > > > and FF is fast? Have you found any techniques which enabled you to > > > > > > > speed up IE? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > TJ > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > > > > > > > Google Groups > > > > > > > "Google Web Toolkit" group.> To post to this group, send email to > > > > > > google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > > > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs > > > > > > cr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > > > .> For more options, visit this group at > > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
