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This seems to make a lot of sense if looked at from the perspective of a web advertiser. I can't fathom how it makes sense from the perspective as a user. Spe

by na85 10y ago

This seems to make a lot of sense if looked at from the perspective of a web advertiser. I can't fathom how it makes sense from the perspective as a user. Speaking as a user, I found my experience to be much, much better back before we had to download a megabyte of javascript just to asynchronously load some text.

ClayFerguson 10y ago
Javascript is what makes web "pages" essentially become "apps", and as Javascript gets more popular more and more developers use it to build bigger and bigger apps. So you might click a link and it starts downloading some multi-megabyte JS files that you have to wait on unexpectedly. I totally get that. Sites that do host apps (rather than static content) if designed well, have it setup so that at least you only have to download "the app" (i.e. all the JS files basically) only at the first visit, and it becomes cached (i.e. essentially 'installed') in your browser. There are some challenges here, but removing JS is the same as removing "apps" support, so it's not even a viable option, unless you want to take the web back to where it was in 1994.