Well personally I've seen performance issues when it comes to handling large XML files where I need to implement some type of xpath and/or translation to a custom data model. I've worked on some apps where if not done properly, some clients machines had the flash player throw a "this script is causing the player to run slowly" message.
Tim On 8/18/05, Claus Wahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are these performance hits you talk about related to the waiting time it > > takes to 'load' a xml or is the time needed to 'parse' a loaded xml file? > > In my experience flash is already lightning fast for the parsing of xml. I > > had no problems with it before. Is using xml for UI definition really a > > performance hit in such a way it prevents users from having a great user > > experience? > > no. there are no performance issues whatsoever. > > the only issue i see with xml powered, client side ui rendering is > scripting. you'd have to go the declarative way (think xml events etc) > as the flash player can't jit compile actionscript. that's not really > a showstopper, but doesn't make things easy either. > > cheers, > claus. > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
