The other day, I asked if anyone had some GPS data for the area around Johnson Peak in Goat Rocks Wilderness, and Miah66 responded by posting a couple of "hillmap" maps in the thread: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=22167
I'm glad I was able to get the GPS data, but those embedded frames cause my browser (Firefox on Mac) to come to a grinding halt for a while! (Same thing happens when I look at it on my phone.) My thread is up to multiple pages now, and I don't get the slowness on the second page, because the maps are on page 1... EXCEPT when I go to reply, because then the whole thread is recapped below the edit box, including the super-slow maps.
I don't know what the solution is... apparently hillmap.com's maps are loading a TON of processor-intensive JavaScript. For the record, I don't get the same lagginess when viewing threads that contain gpsfly.org maps.
I don't suppose a hack could go in somewhere so that it at least doesn't load <iframe>s when doing the recap on the "reply" page?
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I wonder if there was a Hillmaps server having an issue causing a script to hang, because it seems to load fine for me in Chrome/Firefox/IE/iPhone. Is it any better for you now?
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Still killing my phone. It's not a network issue; it's actually making my browser run slower. Scrolling up and down that page is sluggish, even when the map isn't visible!
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the owner of Hillmap has always replied to my emails and looks for feedback on issues like this.
FWIW I dont normally use browser maps on my smartphone they all work too painfully slow. A laptop or workstation should work fine though, Hillmap is one of the simpler browser maps to use.
FWIW I dont normally use browser maps on my smartphone they all work too painfully slow. A laptop or workstation should work fine though, Hillmap is one of the simpler browser maps to use.
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I first noticed the sluggishness on my laptop. I wonder if there's some sort of exponential decrease in speed when there are two maps embedded in a single page.Koda wrote:A laptop or workstation should work fine though, Hillmap is one of the simpler browser maps to use.
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that would make sense to me. I have an old laptop at home that is slow and browser maps bog it down noticeably. An issue with Hillmap embedded into a thread is it wants to be dynamic (move around) when your scrolling the thread and that doesnt help. Just curious how old is your laptop?adamschneider wrote:I first noticed the sluggishness on my laptop. I wonder if there's some sort of exponential decrease in speed when there are two maps embedded in a single page.Koda wrote:A laptop or workstation should work fine though, Hillmap is one of the simpler browser maps to use.
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