4 ms·

It's lightning fast. Makes you feel what you've lost with all the css+js.

• smt88 11y ago
  Browsing could never be slower than what we had without modern CSS/JS: desktop applications. If you think we've lost anything (speed, convenience, whatever) with CSS/JS, then you don't remember (or willfully forgot) what the web was like in the 90s.
  • bananaoomarang 11y ago
    But that was because we were all using dial up, now the problem is the processing power required to crunch the overly-abstracted CSS/js output of our huge and complex toolchains.
    • guard-of-terra 11y ago
      It's not just processing power, it's all the round-trips and timeouts and social buttons delays.
      • gopowerranger 11y ago
        And advertising.
        • guard-of-terra 11y ago
          Dumb banners or text adverts would be pretty fast, but all that script-loaded, dynamically retargetted, real time bidded crap is pretty slow.
          • gopowerranger 11y ago
            Except dumb banner and adverts are NOT pretty fast and a frequent cause of the spinner still running long after the page loads.
            • guard-of-terra 11y ago
              Meaning they are not dumb enough.
    • gopowerranger 11y ago
      Without which we wouldn't need all the processing power and 640K of memory really would be enough.
  • pjc50 11y ago
    No, I remember the web from the modem days, and I'd be quite happy with pages from the modem era but loaded over 100Mbit Ethernet.