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A humorous observation: Ever look at an HTML page created by Microsoft Word? Quite a bit of code goes into what should have been a simple HTML document. Now t
by raintrees 10y ago
A humorous observation: Ever look at an HTML page created by Microsoft Word? Quite a bit of code goes into what should have been a simple HTML document.
Now try viewing source of Mr. Gates' web page here: 6873 lines, the HTML <p> content starts at 5816 and goes for 9 lines to describe the 4 books plus the bonus, for a whopping total of 9 lines of content, 6864 lines of behavior and presentation... Wow.
- mark242 10y agoIf you were ever wondering why Google started AMP, this is it. 5k+ LOC of inlined Javascript, 2.6MB of data and a 13 second load time.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoYou could just not write the code in the first place.
- savanaly 10y agoFor all that, it loads really fast and looks nice.
- Noseshine 10y agoIt takes GIGA-hertz machines to achieve that. On highly parallelized architectures. Often with SSD storage. When I started on the Internet I had a 33 MHz 32 bit CPU, just for comparison, and I used a word processor on 8 bit and with WYSIWYG and a modern GUI on 16 bit. So you telling me "it loads really fast and looks nice" leaves me unsure about my feelings, considering a wider context. It's just some (passive) graphics and text!
- staticelf 10y agoWhen you started websites also looked like shit. So..
- Noseshine 10y agoSo what? It still is just text and graphics! The fact that it "looked like shit" was far more attributable to the absence of designers and professionals at the time, and of professionally designed templates. HTML tables for layout sucked - but you could get graphics and text on the page, nothing more is on that page we are talking about here. Do you think to get better graphics and better layout options for static HTML pages we needed to first get Gigahertz Intel i5 CPUs, combined with Gigabytes of RAM and capable graphics GPUs?
- al_biglan 10y agoIndeed. Almost as many characters as in the google.com page source.
- yvsong 10y agoBill Gates writes very well in English. It's evidence that he wrote excellent software decades ago. It's interesting that writing software seems to make more money than dealing with English documents as ordinary office workers. However, as one moves up and becomes a successful businessman, he reads and writes in English primarily, and makes much more money than those who write software.
- mianos 10y agoHis forte is not really writing software but surrounding himself with good people like Paul Allen who was a way better programmer. Gates is a great businessman who had an eye for the future and could broker a great deal. This is covered in most of the biographic material over the years.
- thirdsun 10y agoFurthermore, with uBlock Origin on Chrome the doesn't show any text / paragraph. I see the header image followed by an endless sea of whitespace.
- 50CNT 10y agoOther humorous observation. Due to the js loading, Bing seems to have trouble caching the content.