I have a JavaScript application, which works fine, but certainly needs some memory / CPU performance (it is based on top of Google maps).
So basically it runs fine on a Desktop / Laptop PC, iPad works OK. But with all these different devices nowadays, smaller devices are definitely overloaded.
So basically I want to determine the available runtime and decide whether I start my JavaScript application, or display a message instead.
- OK, I could check the browser, but this is a never ending story
- I could check on the OS information, but again this is very tedious. Also some OS run on high performance devices as well as low end hardware.
- I could check on the screen size and rule out mobile phones, but then it gets difficult
So is there a way to determine the performance of the client? Just to make it clear, I do not care whether it is a tablet for instance, but if it is a low performance tablet with little CPU performance / memory (so Detect phone/tablet/web client using javascript does not help).