Re: Noticed now much improved response at Wolfram demonstrations.
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- Subject: [mg118874] Re: Noticed now much improved response at Wolfram demonstrations.
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 03:06:01 -0400 (EDT)
The build process for the demonstrations had created some demonstrations files with a needlessly large byte count, which increased the download time required by the plugin. In many cases, the size difference was pretty inconsequential, but there were some outlier cases (some of which I'm guessing you found) where we were able to reduce the size by a really considerable amount. This was a side effect of our build process, not of any default settings in Mathematica itself, so the problem wouldn't affect content created by somebody else using a different process. We've also been looking a lot at plugin speed issues across the board, and we've made considerable independent progress in development versions of Mathematica/Player, as well. I'm not prepared to say yet when you'll be able to see the fruits of those labors, though. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc. On Fri, 13 May 2011 06:27:31 -0400 (EDT), Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > Hello; > > Am I the only one who noticed that now demos at > WRI demonstration site seem to load much faster in > the browser, and they seem to start without that initial > hiccup I used to see. > > Before, the demo will load, then when I try to change > some control on it, there would be some initial delay, > and not a smooth run, at least initially. Now demos seem to > be much smoother and faster. I tried many and they all run > well and fast now compared to before. > > I think something changed. On my end, nothing changed. > same browser, etc.. > > I wonder what did WRI do? New improved plugin version or such? > > Using firefox 3.6, windows 7. > > thanks, > --Nasser