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> That depends entirely on your connection, keeping in mind your connection might be from your phone, when you have very poor reception. Even large payloads on
by antris 8y ago
> That depends entirely on your connection, keeping in mind your connection might be from your phone, when you have very poor reception.
Even large payloads on slow connections can be worked around if you know what you are doing. If your site is well engineered to progressively enhance without disruption, it does not matter if JavaScript is being loaded in the background.
- FridgeSeal 8y ago> If your site is well engineered to progressively enhance without disruption, it does not matter if JavaScript is being loaded in the background. Yes but how many places actually make this effort? Seems to me that most places are very content to make some monstrous multi-MB React/Angular/etc app, ship it and wash their hands. The number of websites that have actually gone to the effort of optimising their sites is extremely small, so I'm doubtful when someone says "oh but web apps can do this too, if you only just progressively load/build it properly/etc" because that implies effort that so far, seemingly no one has gone to the trouble of actually doing.
- antris 8y agoIt's not common enough, but I think the situation is getting a bit better. Node and React made it greatly easier to render your pages on the server side, and I've seen a lot more sites do it.