> Mike K. wrote: > My perception is that the web experience is very close to a desktop-native > experience, and the two are almost interchangable. Running an app in a > browser feels and works almost the same as a native one does.
The HTML5 standalone builder has greatly improved within the last year. Besides networking and javascript-interaction with the calling web page are these my experiences: Compared to the LC IDE/desktop standalones there was in July 2016 at about a slow down by factors of 3 (Safari) over 5 (Firefox) to 10 (Chrome/Opera). This is now down to a slow down by factors of 2 (Safari), 4 (Firefox) and 6 (Chrome/Opera). Loading speed is here at an average of 50 MBit/s down to less than 10 seconds and reloading down to 3 secs using Safari, 6 secs using Firefox and 8 secs using Chrome/Opera --- all on desktop. Server settings were optimized for that, as good as I could do that. The total minimum file size has doubled up but the new 'type' of html.mem-file (though four times larger than the previous versions) has improved the overall startup time significantly. In sum the best result: Using Safari on MacOS the slowdown of HTML5 standalones compared to IDE/desktop standalones has arrived at about a factor of 2. As the IDE also has improved its performance, this is a result better than I ever expected to get. And it is at about 10 times faster than the first HTML5 standalones. OK, these are my own special trials and tests, at least 50 different examples, all available for you to test by yourself ( hh.on-rev.com/html5/ . Replace "X.html" or "hhX.html" with ".zip" for the source and compile with whatever version you like.) There are, sadly, still very basic things missing, which make the HTML5 standalone builder, TMHO, not yet ready for "beta"-state. @Mike. Your experience is *much* better. May be I'm making even basic mistakes that cause an essential loss of speed and/or performance. And I overlooked simple workarounds for some missing basic functionality? So could you please give one (or a few) examples so that we can reproduce such an "almost interchangability"? _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode