Monday, December 10, 2007

MS Volta is doomed I tell you... doooooo-o-o-o-oomed!!!

Not that I care about any of the MS technology, but the simple reason for such dramatic subject is this screenshot (I took it myself):

This is the simplest sample application: http://labs.live.com/volta/samples/Quickstart.html
135 requests, 2.29MB download (only 56KB from cache), it took 31.67 seconds, FF said "Not Responding" while it was loading and I've been loading it for the third time.

They're not going to get out the sandbox with that attitude.

7 comments:

Joe Attardi said...

Wow. That is AWFUL. It froze my browser for a good 10 seconds or so. MS loses again! :)

redsolo said...

I even tried in IE7, and it is still frozen. Sheeeesh

uga said...

And sure enough: "Warning: Unresponsive script. Do you want to continue?"

Although I wouldn't consider it even if it were 5 times faster than GWT. The price of lock-in and closed source is too high.

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Sloloem said...

That was impressive. Took 18 seconds to load on my 55Mbps pipe.
It was doubly impressive given exactly what the page did.

Has anyone deconstructed any of the requests to try to see exactly what all that content is?

uga said...

Assuming you are using Firefox, you could install Firebug (http://www.getfirebug.com/). It will show you all outgoing and incoming HTTP traffic local to the web-page you are viewing. It's an extremely useful web tool. It is shown on the screen-shot, by the way.