For the record: I wholly agree with the author, I'm just balking at Twitter's 40MB. The app we build is the appiest of web apps, but whenever I'm working on so

For the record: I wholly agree with the author, I'm just balking at Twitter's 40MB. The app we build is the appiest of web apps, but whenever I'm working on something else I love seeing how far I can get with nothing but static HTML and some clever CSS. The purpose of SPAs was supposed to be that they were more responsive - only load the data instead of a new page! - but these days it's often faster to load a whole new page if that page is lightweight than to change views with JS. That's insanely backwards.