Runcible's Requirements
Summary: What you will need to use Runcible?
What you will need to use Runcible?
A Laptop, Desktop or Large Tablet.
You certainly can operate Runcible from a tablet - we designed it that way - but Runcible isn’t a tool for consumption of media (what phones and tablets do), it’s a tool for creating and managing your business - and you need visual real estate to interact with that much information. If you do not have to manage large complex projects then a tablet is enough.
People who manage many large projects, or large departments, will love what they can do with Runcible on a large monitor. (It’s like that 80’s movie Wargames - really. You can see everything live and in real time.
No kidding. It’s almost creepy. )
Hint: Runcible does work on a phone but really needs a dedicated phone application to be useful on so small a screen. And we will commit to producing phone apps at some time in the future - albeit they will not present the workspace itself.
A Current Browser.
Runcible
supports versions of
Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge
, that support
web sockets
(constant connections)
but it is likely that it will work with most browsers.
Tip: We develop on Chrome, write our tests, and test on other browsers. (It is what it is.) We develop on various operating systems: OSX, Linux, and Windows. Hint: We did not develop for older browsers that do not handle current technology, and we really have no incentive to. It’s not good for us or our customers. Hint: If you run into issues with your browser, please let us know about them, otherwise we can’t fix them. Hint: Firefox preserves a 'strange' non-standard behavior: using the shift-(mouse-scroll) combination to move backward and forward through the page history. To our knowledge they refer to this behavior as a 'feature'. Horizontal scrolling is necessary for Runcible. Please search for plugins or modifications to Firefox about:config if you wish to use Firefox. We don't feel comfortable posting that information here.
Memory
Runcible takes the same amount of memory and processing power as do
Facebook or Gmail,
depending upon the complexity of the Workspace you choose. If you work with just the task list or activity stream it is very light.
If you are resourcing people on
many projects or viewing data from many organizations it will take more.
A Reliable, Stable, Internet Connection
Runcible relies on ‘web socket’ technology that maintains a constant channel to the server in order to maintain constant updates from the server.
Runcible
tries to restore connections whenever they break, but if not, you will need to refresh your browser window to reconnect.
Note: We made a deliberate design decision to use web socket technology instead of constantly polling the server for changes. Without it, experience and performance demands would have been impossible for us to meet.