Nimbus Notes

Posted by Neville Franks
Nov 25, 2014 at 01:28 AM

yosemite wrote:
Maybe a separate topic about Clibu is in order…
>

That would be good idea.

>I loaded the sample and was quickly mystifed when simple scrolling up
>and down resulted in slowdowns and pauses. After scrolling all the way
>down, then scrolling back up slowed down again. Yuck. Equally
>unacceptable was when I clicked something that narrowed the results,
>then when I unclicked it back to “all”, it apparently had to reload
>everything.
> >These kinds of user experiences are why I don’t use web apps much. Most
>of the things I do in desktop apps happen instantly and that’s the way I
>like it.

I can’t see the scrolling issue you mention and I can’t see how it is possible, unless you are starting to scroll before all the articles in the query have been displayed, in which case it will definitely be a bit jerky.

There is no way Web apps (with remote data) can match the performance of Desktop apps, simply because instead of loading data from your local hard disk, it is all being transferred across the Internet.

I am located in Australia and the Server running Clibu is in the US. When I click ‘All Articles’ in the Sample Knowledge Base it takes approx 5 seconds for all articles to be displayed. I’m located out of town and have a not so speedy ADSL2 connection. Considering that most of these articles have images, which hog bandwidth, I personally feel this is more than satisfactory. Of course you may not think so, and that’s fine.

When I run the same Sample Knowledge Base and query with Clibu running on my local PC it takes < 2 seconds for all articles to be displayed.

I’m more than happy to wait these extra few seconds to gain the benefit of being able to access my content from any PC anywhere, not having to install any software etc. If that’s not a need you have then sticking with Desktop apps (or Clibu running locally) is definitely the way to go.