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Web pages can still be dynamically generated on the server without needing to use JavaScript.

• unethical_ban 10y ago
  Why would you want that instead of AJAX-y functionality? Page reloads increases wait times, and depending on use case, drastically increases page size.
  • ams6110 10y ago
    Full page reloads were a big deal when most people were on dial-up connections. With proper caching and today's connectivity it's far less of an issue. AJAX-y still is nicer and definitely has its place but at least speaking for myself if I'm reading a blog or a news site I'd prefer a fast static page rather than a lot of gratuitious ajax animations and transitions.
    • lukeschlather 10y ago
      The big difficulty these days is mobile. When I'm traveling, I can download a simple HTML page pretty quickly, but every request is a crapshoot. If I need more than a few small requests to use your site, I'm likely not getting it depending on where I am.
  • hueving 10y ago
    >Page reloads increases wait times, and depending on use case, drastically increases page size. Considering the sizes of the javascript libraries loaded by all of the websites, I find it unlikely that the page size for a static page will be larger. The average size of a single page is larger than a doom install now. That's not because of orders of magnitude more of HTML. It's because of the 15 different tracking JS libs, analytics libs, effects libs, etc that are piled into every site.