Major User Experience Improvements and Opera Support
June 17, 2008 – 12:28 pm by Chris CeraIt has been awhile since we sent out an update on our company and technology. Since getting accepted into the DreamIT Ventures program we have acquired new office space and two full-time employees. Greg Bright, one of the original founders, joins us full-time as the VP of Engineering and Dave Noreen as the VP of Sales and Marketing.
We just completed major software and infrastructure improvements, and I’m pleased to announce the following achievements:
- We have ported a number of our services to the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). This provides us with the performance, scalability, and elasticity we need to move forward. In our measurements, we have reduced the time to convert new documents by 50%, and increased the overall speed of our web server by 66%.
- The Prototype.js library has been removed from our core code. The previous release of Vuzit contained 217kB of Javascript code, while the latest version is only 45kB (improvement of 80%)! This is likely the smallest footprint out of any document viewer on the internet. Remember: Vuzit is 100% AJAX and does not depend on any browser plugins (e.g. Flash) or additional software.
- Opera 9.26 and 9.50 are supported web browsers! We are certain that this 1.4% of the browser market is going to turn our core business into an overnight success (joke). Brent is an avid Opera user, and it has always bothered him that it didn’t work with Vuzit.
- Enhanced viewer code to download pages much more intelligently which drastically improves the user experience.
We are really proud of our recent achievements, and expect many new developments over the coming months with our newly expanded team. Please keep the feedback coming on our forums, we love to hear from you. Stay tuned!
6 Responses to “Major User Experience Improvements and Opera Support”
Congrats!
Were working towards minifying too!
Have you looked at firebug with YSlow. YSlow grades the speed of your site and offer suggestions. Gave us a D, so we got some work to do.
By Ryan on Jun 17, 2008
Thank you Ryan. I had never heard of YSlow before and just ran the benchmark … got some things to think about now
Thanks again!
By Chris Cera on Jun 17, 2008
Are you guys gonna release an upload API? I would love to upload a ton of documents at once via automation via a webservice.
By Phil Ives on Jun 18, 2008
Hi Phil,
Yes, a multi-part POST operation is on the way. Should be very very soon! Thanks.
By Chris Cera on Jun 18, 2008
A few months late, but still, congrats on everything, especially Opera support and removing Prototype (80% improvement, huh?).
By yhwhan on Sep 3, 2008
Hi yhwhan, thank you for the kind words and pushing for the Opera support on the forums.
The 80% is referring to the change in the size of the file.
Thanks again, -Chris
By Chris Cera on Sep 3, 2008