Re:Ask HN: Feedback on startup, Fol.io
by bobwebb on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @10:42AM
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When I scroll the page, it lags slightly. I'm using a reasonably fast computer on Linux and this kind of thing doesn't happen all that much. I can only assume it's because of all the elaborate javascript, CSS, etc.
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@bobwebb, thanks for this - can you advise what browser (preferably with version number) you're using? You're right, it's likely the large amount of Javascript but also at present the infinite scroll rapidly loads a lot of quite high quality PNG preview images which we've found has a direct affect on some browsers. We're working on both refactoring and image optimization to correct this.
Cheers!
I haven't looked at your code but I encountered a similar problem on a site I was building, the scrolling was fast in every browser except firefox. Turned out that firefox doesn't dispatch scroll events as quickly as the others, but I found a function which fixed the problem:
http://blog.keithclark.co.uk/faster-scrolling-parallax-websi...
Might be irrelevant but I thought I'd drop this in, in case it was useful.
Re:Ask HN: Feedback on startup, Fol.io
by cilliankieran on Monday June 18, 2012 @07:16PM
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Thanks James - will certainly take a look. I'm not sure if this is related or if it's simply the number of assets being loading are struggling on different browsers.
Cheers.
Fast enough on (what feels like) a hellishly old computer running Linux and Chrome 19.
Re:Ask HN: Feedback on startup, Fol.io
by cilliankieran on Monday June 18, 2012 @07:17PM
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Thanks Loeveborg - good to know it works on that setup as we're currently testing on a limited range of platforms.
Cheers.