[Design] [cosmo] Server Restraints and the Dashboard

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Bobby
How does this relate to pagination? Does pagination provide a natural  
way to limit to how many items are pulled down?

Mimi

On May 15, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Bobby Rullo wrote:

> 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
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