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YouTube even fakes FCP by initially showing a lot of dummy grey boxes until they have any idea of what to really show.
by silvestrov 5y ago
YouTube even fakes FCP by initially showing a lot of dummy grey boxes until they have any idea of what to really show.
- gherkinnn 5y agoThese so-called skeleton screens are a common technique and not inherently bad. When you know an elements exact dimensions but not its contents and have more important things to serve first, it’s completely valid to use. It gets infuriating when these grey boxes animate about but them decide not to display anything anyway and just collapse. Or they load and load and load and not account for network errors. Or when the box sizes has nothing to do with the size of the element it’s being a placeholder for.
- swiley 5y agoDid we forget wombocom so quickly? A big part of the joke was that loading screens (of any kind) on sites are really stupid.
- tedd4u 5y agoLink in case anyone doesn’t know what this is referring to (I think) https://www.zombo.com/ https://www.zombo.com/ (Appears to have been upgraded to HTTPS and other modernities!)
- alpaca128 5y ago> These so-called skeleton screens are a common technique and not inherently bad. The technique may not be bad by itself, but it's so common mostly among super bloated website behemoths that every time I see those skeleton screens I automatically prepare myself for another 5 second of loading. It's the modern web equivalent of seeing an hourglass cursor on an underpowered Vista machine - not inherently bad but usually a bad omen.
- gherkinnn 5y agoCan't argue with that. It's easier to randomly place grey boxes around a page than to address the real problems. Plus you get to lecture people with terms like "perceived performance".