Re: Opera Mini 4 versus iphone Safari

ZnU wrote:
> 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.

except jobs in all his glorious stupidity will not allow 3rd party
mobile apps, so you'll get some fairly substantial webapps .clogging
up the browser.

My cell currently has java apps for remotely connecting to servers and
desktops, FTP, widget ****tals, twitter clients,google maps. google
mail. etc. These are all resident apps that can do substantial client
side processing, including saving persistent state to memory. The
crippled iphone can't do 3rd party apps without resorting to clumsier
webapps.