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Speaking about effectiveness and stuff: I am still amazed how these modern bootstrapy landing pages, that, in this particular case, basically contain nothing mo
by krick 11y ago
Speaking about effectiveness and stuff: I am still amazed how these modern bootstrapy landing pages, that, in this particular case, basically contain nothing more than text and a couple of pictures, can make browser noticeably slower. I mean, yeah, it works, can be built quickly and, since users are used to it — nobody really complains. If it would be some yet another tiny startup, I wouldn't even bother to comment.
But when it's a landing for some futuristic Microsoft project, which is about doing significant work to achieve relatively small improvement in something, and which is very likely to be non-environmentally-friendly… Really, just look at it. Enjoy how scrolling up and down makes your browser lag. And then look at the source. Just marvelous.
- vayeate 11y agoIt's rendered entirely with JavaScript, has images (and gifs), and an iframe with a Bing map on it, some sort of plugin for "Azure Media Player", and it appears to also have some scrolling-based JavaScript. It's a good example of an obese website: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm