• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Tab can't handle heavy flash sites?

kbayer

kbayer

Android Enthusiast
If you go to a heavy flash site, as those on wix.com -- does it operate smoothly? My wife has a few beautiful sites built with wix, but we couldn't get them to do much at BestBuy last night. Videos wouldn't play, no pinch to zoom, etc.

The salesrep blamed the wifi connection.

My wife designs sites and wanted a Tab to show her finished designs to clients, but for now, we're sticking with her netbook.
Are the flash sites still quite a strain on the Tab -- or was there truth to the salesrep's explanation? :confused:
 
The Tab has a 1GHz processor with 512 MB RAM. So I do not expect it to be smooth for heavy flash sites. In fact, even my 1.7GHz/2GB netbook is not smooth.
 
The stock browser is really slow on the Tab for some reason. Dolphin HD is a lot better.

I went on wix.com and the homepage displayed fine. Is there a specific one I can visit to test it out?
 
So that link took about one minute to load on wifi. It actually runs ok. Pinching and zooming is super fluid, but panning around is slightly jerky.

At first I thought the browser wasn't responding, but to pan around you have to drag where there's no flash objects.

I'd recommend downloading Dolphin HD and trying it out the next time you go to Best Buy.
Viewing the websites might be good, but it's too slow to create some.
 
kbayer said:
If you go to a heavy flash site, as those on wix.com -- does it operate smoothly? My wife has a few beautiful sites built with wix, but we couldn't get them to do much at BestBuy last night. Videos wouldn't play, no pinch to zoom, etc.

The salesrep blamed the wifi connection.

My wife designs sites and wanted a Tab to show her finished designs to clients, but for now, we're sticking with her netbook.
Are the flash sites still quite a strain on the Tab -- or was there truth to the salesrep's explanation? :confused:
Click to expand...

It has nothing to do with the connection speed once the web site and flash applets are done downloading. At that point it's all about CPU speed and ram, mostly CPU speed.

The salesrep is stupid. I say this not because he doesn't know the answer, but rather because he doesn't know that he doesn't know the answer. Nobody can know everything, but everybody should know what they don't know.
 
I'm on wifi and the sample link loaded reasonably quickly in stock browser. I'm not a fan of stock browser either; imagine my surprise. Tried Dolphin too and experienced similar to what earlier poster described.
 
sarcasmic said:
It has nothing to do with the connection speed once the web site and flash applets are done downloading. At that point it's all about CPU speed and ram, mostly CPU speed.

The salesrep is stupid. I say this not because he doesn't know the answer, but rather because he doesn't know that he doesn't know the answer. Nobody can know everything, but everybody should know what they don't know.
Click to expand...

Oddly enough that makes sense...

The wise man isn't the one who thinks he knows everything, but rather the one who knows he doesn't.


and also, I want to add that if there is enough flash on a site just about every device would have some problem at one point or another.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom