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I wouldn't call this "lightweight". Every action has about a second of lag on my laptop. I know that my 7 year old MacBook is slower than a lot of machines that
by stefco_ 9y ago
I wouldn't call this "lightweight". Every action has about a second of lag on my laptop. I know that my 7 year old MacBook is slower than a lot of machines that are going to run this, but there are plenty of slower machines out there, and I don't usually find web experiences unusable on this thing.
I've built several canvas-based interactive drag-and-drop applets that ran faster than this on my laptop. It was a pain, which was why I was excited to see this library on HN. But given how many people out there have old hardware, I would probably not use this library for anything but a personal project. It absolutely doesn't need to be so slow on old hardware.
That said, I hope it continues to develop, and that the performance improves! It certainly has a beautiful home page.
- jackmott 9y agoseems instant on my machine in chrome and the firefox beta. you using safari?
- stefco_ 9y agoMacBookPro7,1 (mid-2010) in Chrome! It's definitely slower than new computers, but usually I don't have trouble with nice JS libraries unless a page is drowning me in tracking software. Just tried it in safari, and it was equally slow (subjectively speaking). Let me give Firefox Quantum a whirl... EDIT: It's actually usable in the newest Firefox! Still kind of slow, but significantly better than Chrome or Safari. But I stand by my earlier point: I'm probably not a total edge case, and if I were designing a tool designed for the public at large, I wouldn't assume that all or even most of my users are on recent, well-maintained computers running recent browser versions. I know people outside of the dev world who (shudder) still run OS X Mavericks and haven't installed a single update in years. People like this will probably use your app, and unless you want them to think it's trash, you have to make it feel snappy.
- mwilliaams 9y agoI'm a dev and I still run Mavericks. For a while I have felt like Apple's software is getting worse and worse, so I haven't updated. I don't use Safari though, so my browser is modern (the new Firefox actually).
- stefco_ 9y agoI actually agree about their software quality but I worry about software compatibility and unpatched vulns, and I like a few recent features, like icloud notes. So I upgrade. But I prefer the old ones in a lot of ways too.
- usaphp 9y agoHmm works fine for me on mid 2013 mbpro
- homero 9y agoIt's instant on my phone
- TrinaryWorksToo 9y agoMy Samsung s8 seems to have a noticeable delay on the sample app.
- y4mi 9y agodragula feels quicker to me. https://bevacqua.github.io/dragula/ https://bevacqua.github.io/dragula/
- punnerud 9y agoThe page scroll when using it on iPhone