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Man, I love what Cappuccino can do. It looks really slick. However, on a top-end Mac Pro with 6gb of RAM in Safari 4 beta and Firefox 3.5 beta, its sloooooow. E

by geuis 17y ago

Man, I love what Cappuccino can do. It looks really slick. However, on a top-end Mac Pro with 6gb of RAM in Safari 4 beta and Firefox 3.5 beta, its sloooooow. Everything is just really jerky and non-responsive while trying to navigate around. All that aside, its a really great interface. Soon as you enable some additional functionality (like search) and speed up the interface, this will be something I want to come to.

davidcann 17y ago
Yea, I am definitely working to speed up the interface responsiveness. There's a standalone app OS X that you can keep open for hours, so it won't bog down your main browser: https://s3.amazonaws.com/almostatapps/almost.at.dmg https://s3.amazonaws.com/almostatapps/almost.at.dmg
- Caged 17y ago
  Great Stuff, although when I fire up this app all I get is a blank white screen. Didn't get any useful information on the console. I assume this is just a wrapper around a WebView? I'm running the latest Safari 4 beta and the web version works fine.
  - davidcann 17y ago
    Hm. I guess I have some bugs to work out. I had that happen to me once, but haven't been able to reproduce it since. I'll try, though. Yes, it's just a WebView... I hope people don't think I'm trying to push it as a "real" OS X app, because it's just javascript, so I'm trying to call it a "Standalone Browser."
- kqr2 17y ago
  Since you used Cappuccino, were you able to compile this from the same source as the web site?
  - davidcann 17y ago
    Yea, though technically it's not "compiled" ... only the browser wrapper is compiled objective-c code. It's still just html/javascript running inside.
anigbrowl 17y ago
Surprisingly, it runs quite smoothly on this crappy little Athlon 64 (about 5 years old, 1gb RAM) here at work, in FF 3.0.1.0. Not as smoothly as on my home machine, but not enough to be annoying either. Excellent work. I am not sure about the name, I presume you are trying to say 'almost like being there?'. It probably doesn't help that today's top story is the sad news about that missing plane :-/ ...one feature request would be some kind of feed/download option for the stats window at the bottom...though for the few who'd be interested in doing math on it, I suppose it wouldn't be much more effort to just go to Twitter directly. I found myself wondering about the absolute numbers represented by the graph, though.

by geuis 17y ago

davidcann 17y ago

Yea, I am definitely working to speed up the interface responsiveness. There's a standalone app OS X that you can keep open for hours, so it won't bog down your main browser: https://s3.amazonaws.com/almostatapps/almost.at.dmg https://s3.amazonaws.com/almostatapps/almost.at.dmg

Caged 17y ago
Great Stuff, although when I fire up this app all I get is a blank white screen. Didn't get any useful information on the console. I assume this is just a wrapper around a WebView? I'm running the latest Safari 4 beta and the web version works fine.
- davidcann 17y ago
  Hm. I guess I have some bugs to work out. I had that happen to me once, but haven't been able to reproduce it since. I'll try, though. Yes, it's just a WebView... I hope people don't think I'm trying to push it as a "real" OS X app, because it's just javascript, so I'm trying to call it a "Standalone Browser."
kqr2 17y ago
Since you used Cappuccino, were you able to compile this from the same source as the web site?
- davidcann 17y ago
  Yea, though technically it's not "compiled" ... only the browser wrapper is compiled objective-c code. It's still just html/javascript running inside.

anigbrowl 17y ago

Surprisingly, it runs quite smoothly on this crappy little Athlon 64 (about 5 years old, 1gb RAM) here at work, in FF 3.0.1.0. Not as smoothly as on my home machine, but not enough to be annoying either. Excellent work. I am not sure about the name, I presume you are trying to say 'almost like being there?'. It probably doesn't help that today's top story is the sad news about that missing plane :-/ ...one feature request would be some kind of feed/download option for the stats window at the bottom...though for the few who'd be interested in doing math on it, I suppose it wouldn't be much more effort to just go to Twitter directly. I found myself wondering about the absolute numbers represented by the graph, though.