[jQuery] OT: how to benchmark user hardware?
Hi friends,
i have a question slightly off topic: my jquery-based experimental application is very visual, and renders quite well on recent pcs, but not so good on old ones: i'm moving too many elements for these old bastards.
I would like to explore the possibility to adapt the content to the user's setup so that it degrades gracefully, and still feel responsive.
so i'm thinking about a scheme like:
1/ detect user setup or perform some tests, to determine the available CPU, graphic Card, RAM, browser,OS. It may not even be necessary to know these datas, if we run a test that just tells us if the end user specs are speedy or not.
2/ send a different javscript file according to the results of the benchmark.
Has anyone done somethiing similaror have any thought about this?
Thank you,
Alexandre