Re: Opera Mini 4 versus iphone Safari

In article <1182817815.814166.80810@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 asjbiotek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> On Jun 25, 4:39 pm, Mishagam <noem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > none wrote:
> > > asjbio...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> > >> 2. will be slow as mol***** because of all the scripts running on
the
> > >> browser.
> >
> > > What? Scripts are slow on OSX? Surely you jest.
> >
> > May be (Shell) scripts on OSX (Unix) run faster than bat files on
> > Windows, but this doesn't mean that (javascript) scripts on Safari
> > browser run faster that on IE or Firefox or that they will be fast on
> > iPhone.
> > Generally javascript is fully interpreted language and rather slow.
> 
> yep, I must have missed this comment...javascript running continuously
> on a browser, even a desktop one, has the potential to slow down the
> application obviously. It's sorta common sense that continuous
> processing of scripts on the browser will slow it down.

This issue is being seriously overplayed. You generally have to use 
JavaScript for fairly nutty things (like manipulating *large* amounts of 
text) before you start causing performance problems. Most AJAX apps just 
use client-side JS for showing, hiding, or creating elements that 
consist of a few lines of HTML, and copying short strings into or out of 
fields.

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