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Because many publishers found that visitors wont wait the few extra seconds it takes to load the content on the server. They need to see something loading in th
by onewaystreet 11y ago
Because many publishers found that visitors wont wait the few extra seconds it takes to load the content on the server. They need to see something loading in their browser or they abandon the content.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoThen show them an AJAX spinner while fetching the static site in the background.
- Gigablah 11y agoThat's what one of the Blogger templates does, and I've seen people on HN complain about having to see an AJAX spinner just to load a blog.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoYeah, I'm such a complainer too. Blogs are one of the last places you should ever see such a spinner because they're just static content with sidebars. There should be little to none client-side rendering involved. And the spinner on Blogger is only a (very visible) symptom of the bigger problem - the whole site is incredibly slow and resource heavy.
- pjmlp 11y agoI can understand interactive documents like notebooks (IPython and such) and games, for anything else just give me HTML + CSS.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoI think you mean publishers built a slow site and are bemused by why they don't have any traffic. Its a lack of repsect for techies and quality and not understanding that the web is not a glossy brochure that you can't optimize by shouting at a printer over the phone.