erland;320510 Wrote: > I just tried 0.5 on my iPhone 3G and what a difference compared to 0.4 > on iPod Touch. > Ah, you got one of those... > > The scrolling in the Now Playing screen is a lot smoother than the > scrolling when you enter the different browse menus from the Home page. > Is it possible to get the same smoothness also in the browse pages ? > Step "1" on my roadmap. I didn't do that right away since I'm rewriting the main menu anyway. Will be in 0.5.2. This week. > > I suppose the smoothness requires the sub page to be already loaded, so > it won't work for sub menus that needs a server request to retrieve its > information ? > Yes, but you could load the page in the background through an Ajax request and scroll it in when finished. > > This feels great in the playlist view, could this be used in all the > rest of the brows pages also or is it limited to short lists ? > Step "2" on my roadmap ;-) Yet it degrades a bit when a lot of elements are loaded (icons, cover art etc.) so I will have to tweak a bit. The issue is that the browser obviously does not commit a lot of memory to each window. > > I tried to load a large playlist and the Now Playing view basically > never finish loading. It's not a big issues for me personally since I > mostly use short playlists with a length of 10-20 tracks, but with a > large playlist of several hundred tracks it doesn't work. I'm not sure > if the same problem also exist in 0.4, but in 0.5 it is unusable with > large playlists. > > Could this problem be related to the new features in 0.5 ? > > > > > > Yes. Another thing I'm tweaking right now. What happens is: I load the > > full playlist in the background now (as discussed in the development > > thread). The issue is: if the Ajax requests kick in before the page is > > fully rendered the "progress bar" doesn't disappear before all loading > > is finished. I try to get around this by deferring a lot of loading but > > it's a compromise since at the same time this means a some stuff will > > not be ready if you navigate there quickly. > > Will be less of an issue though, when at least the "core" stuff doesn't > > leave the page anymore since you will have to load that only once, > > then. > > That's after Step "2" on the roadmap. And that's also the reason why I > > really want to finish these two steps.
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