hangs browser for a while
I've had instances where Popfly slows down the browser so much that it freezes for periods fo time. I thought it might be something I was doing, but it even happened when I was creating the Twitter tutorial (in edit mode, bit preview mode). It goes away (at least for a while) when I refresh the browser and get a fresh copy of Popfly.
I also recevied the dreaded "a script is causing your browser to run slow, stop the script? Yes or No" prompt at one point. I beleive that this was when I was running in Preview mode and plotting some info on a VE map.
BTW, I'm running Vista x86 and IE7 on a 3GHz P4 with a "Windows Experience Index" of 4.2.
Donavon
The problem is that at the moment we are making the calls to the web services synchronously which blocks the browser as javascript has only one thread to execute on which is the same thread as the UI, fixing this issue is one of are top concerns and is something being worked on. The trade off for us was between using the easy to understand synchronous programming model vs. a more complicated call back approach as the audience for Popfly was users with little programming experience we ruled out using callbacks. But we have a few ideas to how we can improve the experience.
I think I had a similar problem, but mine happened when I added the timer module, in the tutorial.
I don't know if it was because the default fetch being 5 seconds. In my case, firefox 2.0.0.3 told me (translating to English) "Permission denied to define property EventTarget.addEventListener", with the browser slowing, near freezing, down. I was able to delete the timer module, tried to preview (thinking it would remove the background timer processing), but it completely stooped. Had to close down the browser.Thanks.
I've had the same problem. Sometimes It will start responding again and sometimes I have to use task manager.
If it helps I'm running IE7 with Windows XP Media Centre
I'm also experiencing slowdown issues. Virtual Earth takes a while but doesn't hang the entire browser. However, after adding the timer block (at the end of the Twitter tutorial) and previewing, I get extreme slowdowns and the browser hangs regularly.
I am having a slow ie7 preformance when uploading nascar.com or any site with allot picture or video links. It seems
to hang up for while and after about 20 sec it starts to upload. But when I upload my msn site or weatherunderground.com
it take only 4 sec. HELP .
