On Sep 1, 9:25 am, cipher_neo <l33...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > We have developed POS software, in Rails 3.0 that is to run on tablet and > touch screen PC's. > > The main menu interface is using jQuery, and all of the buttons on the > screen are simply divs that respond to onclick events. > > The interface is not as fast as a native application would be as we are > restricted to response time by the browser itself (we are currently using > firefox). > > We have overcome the delay on the ipad using the script and guidelines > here:http://cubiq.org/remove-onclick-delay-on-webkit-for-iphone > > I have refactored a lot of the javascript to make it run faster (taking into > account guidelines from > here:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2006/08/28/728654.aspx) > > Is there anything else we can do to make the interface a bit more snappy? > > I am looking into using Palemoon (http://www.palemoon.org/) also, but I > still don't think that we will match up to the response time of native apps. > > Anyone got any advice?
Have you had a look at HTML5 specs for Safari? Offline storage might help you speed things up a little if you are constantly going back and forth to the server for repeated data. Here's a link to an Apple demo: http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/offline-calendar.php hth Paul > > thanks, > > Lee -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
