A few questions/issues

SparkWeb
1

I have tried to deploy SparkWeb at my production environment. Just for a test.

We have IIS running on Windows Server 2003 (intranet, share, antivirus server, dhcp). And Openfire is on a separate box with linux on the same LAN network. Connection between those servers should be fast and also server-client connections. I have put SparkWebS 0.9.0 in first server’s intranet wwwroot folder. So i have few questions.

  1. How long does a roster load for you in SparkWeb? With ~200 contacts it takes very long, 20-30 secs. Is it normal?

  2. This is a question for Armando rather. Is there going to be an option to show offline users in their groups?

  3. Unicode issue i think. But strange, it shows square only for one special symbol of lithuanian alphabet. Z with a crown. http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abėcėlė (last in first bolded alphabet).

  4. Is this a known incompatibility with IE7? It didnt work for us. Firefox works fine.

  5. Could be an add-on issue, but my collegue doesnt get new message notifications (tab name change) in Firefox. Maybe someone knows which add-on or option could cause that?

  6. Auto login isnt working for us in Firefox, it shows SparkWeb background. I have waited more than 20-30 secs and nothing happened.

2

  1. Sadly yes. I spent ages optimizing, but it’s still slow. Flex’s List control is retarded. If you’re willing to sacrifice a few things you can speed it up; the basic principle is that every layout container in BuddyRenderer you remove will buy you several seconds faster loading. The right solution is to move to a control other than mx:List that isn’t horrible.

  2. Where in the UI is this?

  3. BOSH or socket connection? Trunk should behavior a lot better with BOSH I believe.

  4. Trunk fixes this

  5. Autologin is a horrible hack It should work though

3
  1. Nothing is set in stone, only in mud. I will add the request for improvment to the tracker. David is quite a bit more familiar with the contact list and roster code than I at the moment.
4

DavidSmith wrote:

  1. Where in the UI is this?

In contacts’ names.

  1. BOSH or socket connection? Trunk should behavior a lot better with BOSH I believe.

Socket. I dont really know what that BOSH is Should i enable HTTP binding on the server and allow bosh clients to connect and then change sparkweb settings to that? Also, i use 0.9.0 version available in Downloads. Though it’s not working on one PC and works for two others.

  1. Autologin is a horrible hack It should work though

Maybe it works in trunk?

5

ajagucki wrote:

  1. Nothing is set in stone, only in mud. I will add the request for improvment to the tracker. David is quite a bit more familiar with the contact list and roster code than I at the moment.

That’s ok. I’m not demanding to make this as soon as possible. We are not going to use web client soon or at all. But maybe this can be useful for others.

6

wroot wrote:

DavidSmith wrote:

  1. Where in the UI is this?

In contacts’ names.

Odd. That should work as far as I know. Maybe fixed in trunk