javascript & sys requirements

[TomK]

Are there any system requirements for running javascript?

In playing with the "Ultimate Fade In Slide Show" it works fine on systems with a P3 and up but will not work on P2 or lower using IE. All systems work fine with firefox (imagine that).

All systems loaded the same with the same OS and svc packs Etc.

Thanks

[Twey]

It's impossible to accurately judge how much of a resource Javascript will take up, since every browser does things differently. I'm quite surprised at those results, actually; Firefox is generally considered to be a bit of a resource hog.

[TomK]

There is a site using the script I'm talking about if you want to try it. I hope someone might have more insight on the problem. The P2 works with FF but NOT IE6 sp1.

www.thewharfal.com

Thanks

[Twey]

Unfortunately, due to a bug in my build of Firefox, I'm unable to test it for you :-\

[blm126]

Works fine in Firefox 2 beta 1 and Internet Explore 6 sp1 for me.

[TomK]

thanks for trying this.

blm126, if you don't mind, what processor are you using. the problem I'm wondering about is why won't that script work with a processor below a P3? Alot of other sites have scripts that appear to work fine on those machines.

Its just one of those things I would like to understand.

Thanks again

[blm126]

AMD Sempron 2600+
Also tested a P3 866mhz
both worked. Sorry, that is the slowest computer I own(well, I do own a P2, but it is a FreeBSD machine with no GUI)

[TomK]

thanks for trying.
It must be an IE thing since FF works fine on the P2. Just never realized there might be a problem. I discovered it by accident. btw, FF loads faster on the P2 than IE

Thanks

[Twey]

FF loads faster on the P2 than IE

That's not good news for Microsoft at all, since most of IE is already preloaded Firefox should take much longer to start.

[mwinter]

... Firefox is generally considered to be a bit of a resource hog.

As far as I'm aware, that's only in relation to how it handles graphics; it tends to accumulate the data in memory, rather than flush it out periodically. I'm not sure if that's a platform-specific problem (I seem to remember that described in reference to X), but certainly something similar occurs in Windows.

Whilst taking a quick look at BugZilla, part of my problem could be due to the AdBlock extension, in which serious memory leaks have been discovered in the past (apparently; the bug report was regarding something else).

Mike