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What I think is difficult is that most people think a website should be an experience. The client wants this, the designer wants this, the marketeer wants this
by pasta 8y ago
What I think is difficult is that most people think a website should be an experience.
The client wants this, the designer wants this, the marketeer wants this and even most users want this.
So that's how huge headers with high res photo's are born.
After that the site must be online asap and the developer doesn't have or take the time to load images responsive.
Combine this with a framework that takes 200ms to init and we are where we are now.
(And then ofcourse there is the marketeer telling you to include a script from x,y and z.)
With the right tools you can build a fast web, but I think most developers are not experienced, lazy or just don't care.
(You don't need to include 0.5MB of FontAwesome when you only use 2 icons...)
And yeah: AMP is a joke.
- SilasX 8y agoWhich designer wants an unmovable header that takes 1/3rd of the screen and makes me feel like I'm looking at it through blinds, as I typically see on mobile?
- eterm 8y ago> framework that takes 200ms to init Which framework(s) take 200ms to init?
- lightswitch05 8y agoAMP is terrible. I flat out block it in my hosts file and haven't missed it yet. Its pretty much just used for advertising anyway. Or for 'news' articles that are thinly disguised ads
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> What I think is difficult is that most people think a website should be an experience. People on the delivering end. Not the users. The users just want to get the content they came in for, and to continue with their lives. This "website is experience" is a combination of vanity and trying to monetize users better by playing on their emotions.
- eadmund 8y agoI wish that were true, but is it really? I think of Idiocracy, and how prophetic it was. I fear that most users do want 'Ow, My Balls' and brightly-coloured, moving objects to distract them from the ennui of life.