On Thu, May 11, 2017, at 01:43 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > In Firefox 43, I rewrote our Big5 support and, among other things, I > optimized the *encoder* for footprint rather than speed on the theory > that users won't notice anyway since the encoder run is followed by a > dominating wait for the network when submitting a form. > > Since then, I've learned that the relative slowness of the Big5 > encoder is greater than I had anticipated. Still, I haven't seen > anyone complaining, but I don't know if anyone who finds it too slow > knows how to attribute the complaint. > > I'd like to hear from someone who uses a Web site/app that involves > submitting a textarea of Traditional Chinese text in Big5 if the form > submission performance seems normal (doesn't feel particularly slow) > on low-performance hardware, like an Android phone. (In the phone > case, I mean the amount of text you'd feel OK to input on a phone at > one time.) > > If UTF-8 is so widely deployed that no one in the Taipei office needs > to submit forms in Big5 anymore, that would be good to know, too.
I don't feel that I see a lot of Big5 websites out there. It's hard for me to even find one to test. > Context: > I need to decide if I should make Big5 encode faster or if I should > trade off speed for smaller footprint for the legacy Simplified > Chinese and Japanese *encoders*, too. I think Shift_JIS are still widely used. But this is just my experience and guessing. If we really want to know the real word usage we should collect data. Is there some telemetry probe for this already? Kanru > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivo...@hsivonen.fi > https://hsivonen.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
