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Isn't it a failure of HTML+CSS+WebFoo when the supporting assets are 10 or 20 times larger than the content to be consumed? Pages loading megabytes of JavaScrip
by cm3 11y ago
Isn't it a failure of HTML+CSS+WebFoo when the supporting assets are 10 or 20 times larger than the content to be consumed? Pages loading megabytes of JavaScript, fonts, and large images and videos just on the landing page. I think we lost it completely when we started to fetch JSON and render it locally via JavaScript. The whole concept of HTTP GET was nullified that way.
- digi_owl 11y agoCSS basically turned the whole thing into a crappy apps UI, though the appification of the web honestly started back when Microsoft and Netscape was battling for control over the intranet (and likely why anything and everything is layered on top of TCP/IP these days, for better or worse). In a way we have come full circle. The personal computer came to be because accountants was fed up begging sysadmins for time on the mainframes. And with CSS and JS "powered" web sites we have returned to the era of the graphical terminal.
- cm3 11y agoIt's even worse than TCP/IP only, it's mostly HTTP only these days. Things like SCTP got pushed into niche use and we're reinventing SCTP on top of HTPP(2) on top of TCP on top of IP. I'm hopeful to see the trend go back though, if it's really a circle :).
- digi_owl 11y agoYeah i know. We seem to have turned HTTP into TCP, and use it to carry various ad-hoc "protocols" encoded in JSON. Part of that i think we can blame firewalls, as most often they block everything but HTTP(S) by default.