[bt-devel] General Book Navigation

[Ben Morgan]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> From what I've read, BPBible uses wx and therefor probably the wxHTML
> widget?  The performance of wxHTML (and previously the BibleTime
> KHTML) widget is terrible.  The first time I tried to open one of
> these modules using a wxHTML widget it took upwards of 5 minutes,
> whereas Firefox was able to gobble it up in a few seconds.
>
BPBible 0.5 which is in development uses wxWebConnect i.e. Xulrunner.

>
> I would imagine QtWebKit to be more akin (and maybe faster) to
> Firefox's performance than wx's.  I'll give it a go and see how it
> turns out with Early Church Fathers.  Also, when you say "lazy
> loading" do you mean the user can scroll continuously through the
> entire work, and you just feed the widget more data as it is needed?
> Because that would be an equivalent Use Case with better
> under-the-hood performance.
>
Yes, that's what I mean. It has a couple of downsides like the fact that
scrollbars don't mean as much, but overall gives a better experience I
think.

God Bless,
Ben
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