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Not just the size of a given output, but the space of possible outputs. I am also of the opinion that webdev is bloated and miserable, but it is still a massive
by dmreedy 10y ago
Not just the size of a given output, but the space of possible outputs. I am also of the opinion that webdev is bloated and miserable, but it is still a massive compression of the information it represents.
- titzer 10y agoI don't really buy that acres of whitespace and gradients really describe much information. Considered at the boundary of your awareness--in that you are mostly unaware of all the pixels on the page, then absolutely not true. A typical news article might be a few KB of text but MBs and MBs of images that you never look at.
- dmreedy 10y agoI'm talking about Shannon Information specifically. In which case, acres of whitespace and gradients very much are information. Calling them "whitespace" and "gradients" is a significant act of compression in and of itself.
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- titzer 10y agoI understand your argument, but even then I don't think it's quite right; there is lots of room to improve on the size of a webpage vs its rendered pixels on the screen, even with the fancy fonts and gradients and animations. I still don't believe it's really megabytes. Have you seen 4k demo contests, btw? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w_xEUoK79o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w_xEUoK79o