A fallback to flash is not the best option for mobiles without flash support, for operating systems without non-free software (like... flash). And: Flash often is a performance killer itself. Less for the single flash "movie" inside the browser, but for the overall operating system.
This it not in particular a Potlatch issue (Potlatch is written great in flash, I would say), but often due to hundrets of ad banners with complex animations, movies and/or sound. Therefore a fallback to flash, suggesting that this is running better than iD might be the wrong way. I agree (partly) that it's better to show less warnings etc. to the user, but instead of falling back to P2, I would provide the user the choice: "Hey, you try iD in Firefox 21. This might be slow due to browser limitations yet. What do you want to do? [use Potlatch2 instead] [use a different browser] [use JOSM] [try iD, even if it's slow]" regards Peter Am 14.05.2013 14:29, schrieb Tom Hughes: > On 14/05/13 13:14, Kevin Peat wrote: > >> I would imagine that most OSMers would have (at least) Firefox and >> Chrome/Chromium installed. If iD doesn't work so well on Firefox yet >> then why not put up a dialog at the start of a session on Firefox >> telling them they would be better off using Chrome? > > Because that makes for an appalling user experience? > > If we want to make it the default before FF seems to be up to the job > then we'll just make FF fall back to PL2 as we will already be doing for > IE. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
