[OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

[Peter Wendorff]

A fallback to flash is not the best option for mobiles without flash
support, for operating systems without non-free software (like... flash).
And: Flash often is a performance killer itself. Less for the single
flash "movie" inside the browser, but for the overall operating system.

This it not in particular a Potlatch issue (Potlatch is written great in
flash, I would say), but often due to hundrets of ad banners with
complex animations, movies and/or sound.

Therefore a fallback to flash, suggesting that this is running better
than iD might be the wrong way.

I agree (partly) that it's better to show less warnings etc. to the
user, but instead of falling back to P2, I would provide the user the
choice:
"Hey, you try iD in Firefox 21. This might be slow due to browser
limitations yet. What do you want to do? [use Potlatch2 instead] [use a
different browser] [use JOSM] [try iD, even if it's slow]"

regards
Peter

Am 14.05.2013 14:29, schrieb Tom Hughes:
> On 14/05/13 13:14, Kevin Peat wrote:
> 
>> I would imagine that most OSMers would have (at least) Firefox and
>> Chrome/Chromium installed. If iD doesn't work so well on Firefox yet
>> then why not put up a dialog at the start of a session on Firefox
>> telling them they would be better off using Chrome?
> 
> Because that makes for an appalling user experience?
> 
> If we want to make it the default before FF seems to be up to the job
> then we'll just make FF fall back to PL2 as we will already be doing for
> IE.
> 
> Tom
>