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>News sites are hypertext, also known as formatted text, and not web-apps or programs which download and render websites. No, there are many thousands of websi
by SquareWheel 8y ago
>News sites are hypertext, also known as formatted text, and not web-apps or programs which download and render websites.
No, there are many thousands of websites that render their content dynamically on the client - news or otherwise. Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit all make use of client-side rendering (and all provide news services).
>not deliberately hide content from users
Your browser also "deliberately hides content". It waits a few hundred milliseconds before triggering a paint, just to avoid content from jumping around. AMP pages do the same -- unless you break the mechanism of course.
- monadgonad 8y ago> Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit all make use of client-side rendering (and all provide news services) Oh, come on. You and I both know that those are social media apps which act as news aggregators, and are not themselves sources of textual news articles. jimbo1qaz was clearly talking about the latter.
- SquareWheel 8y agoWhat is the meaningful distinction between news websites and non-news websites? Client-side rendering is just a technique which isn't specific to any industry.