[WDSCI-L] Re: Webfacing reactions from users

["Buck Calabro" <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Mike Hockings wrote:

> First of all WebFacing does not blank the
> screen, the browser does that.

Right-on.  And different browsers behave differently.  IBM WebFacing
will only work properly with Internet Explorer though, so your users
will have to live with IE's quirks.

> I think that you will find that it depends upon
> how quickly the data is delivered start-to-finish
> to the browser.

Please be aware that this start-to-finish delivery time is not only
dependent upon the browser, but also on the client PC!  WebFacing can
produce some large page sizes depending on the original DDS it had to
work with.  I've found that older PC's can literally add two seconds a
page to the rendering time.  Older = Pentium II, 450MHz, 128Mb RAM.

Yes Mike, we still have those antiques.
  --buck