Stack 16: What's New?

Form Engine (Lightning Mode)

The form engine has been redesigned to take advantage of performance efficiencies available in modern web browsers. Forms opened in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, mobile Chrome (Android), or mobile Safari (iOS) will leverage the optimizations within those browsers to load more quickly and to respond to user actions more quickly once in the form. This will be most pronounced in slower forms, especially in larger forms that have a substantial set of logic defined (such as relevant logic), forms with many repeating group occurrences, and forms that read in values from a large set of cross-form data. Form load times have been found to be cut by 75% to 95% (or more) in these slower forms. Smaller, less complex forms that are already relatively fast will also have improved performance, but they will generally be faster by a smaller degree. Note that this update does not impact Internet Explorer 11. IE11 still uses the older processing mechanisms and will be much slower than newer browsers.

See full release notes for Stack 16 here.