- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:10:22 +0100
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:06:52 +0100, John Tamplin <jat at google.com> wrote: > I am not on the GMail team, but we did see similar issues on the GWT > team -- simply parsing the downloaded script takes a lot of time and > interferes with user interaction with the UI, so as awkward as it seems, > downloading the > script in a comment in the background, and then evaluating it when needed > does provide a better user experience on mobile devices. > > See > http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/09/gmail-for-mobile-html5-series-reducing.html > for the official blog post about this technique. > > So, I think you should consider having download / parse / execute be > separate if you are going to go to the trouble to do anything. Is there a specific problem with letting Web Workers handle this use case? They should not interfere with the UI thread. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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