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Cool site, but proof that it doesn't take JavaScript to build a rough browsing experience in 2019. I think I heard my Pixel 3s fan kick on when I started to scr

• Aardwolf 8y ago
  Strange, scrolls super smooth in both firefox and chrome on a desktop PC for me, much smoother than JS heavy sites. I can just grab the scrollbar and go anywhere and see the text fly by and respond immediately. It's about 20k lines worth of fixed position text, pretty easy for a modern computer. I wonder what the pixel 3 browser is doing differently, isn't it also Chrome? Pixel 3 surely has a better CPU than computers in the year 2000, and even then you could scroll through 20k text lines easily.
• kortex 8y ago
  Yeah I was really curious to check these out but I couldn't even make it past the first paragraph with each scroll tic taking several seconds. Need to check it out on desktop as now I'm curious why it's so un-performant.
  • tomatotomato37 8y ago
    I think it's just a genuinely fucking massive page; there's 1.7 mb of pure html composed of 11690-something paragraph nodes