[Design] [cosmo] Server Restraints and the Dashboard

[Bobby Rullo]

Hi there,

Due to the nature of Cosmo UI as a web application, we have  
identified a few areas where we find it helpul to put in some  
constraints that don't exist on the desktop for reasons of server  
load, bandwidth and performance.

One of these constraints is the nature of the LATER section. Getting  
a single occurrence for every recurring event in the future could be  
an expensive query with lots of results that the user probably  
doesn't want (the "birthday" phenomenon is a good illustration of  
this - do we really need to see every single birthday in the next  
year in the later section?) Setting an arbitrary yet reasonable limit  
could help things out here - maybe a month or so into the future.

Similarly, expanding every single recurring item from now to the  
beginning of time to get every DONE occurrence is taxing on bandwidth  
and server load. Putting a limit on how far to go back (say, one  
month back) would be very helpful.

Would this be an ok difference between web ui and desktop?

Bobby