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The primary purpose of the web is now an app delivery platform & VM execution environment, not text delivery.
by msy 5y ago
The primary purpose of the web is now an app delivery platform & VM execution environment, not text delivery.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoAnecdotal, most of my internet use is still finding and reading text based information. ...I mean it's to build a web application, but that's different.
- wolf550e 5y agoThat is correct but irrelevant. When I reach a landing page that mainly has text content (whether it's a news article, a blog post, a company's "about us" or a product's features list/matrix or something else), the page should load fast. My browsers shouldn't need to make 100 network connections and download megabytes to display a thousand words of text and some images. It should be about 1 network connection and maybe dozens of kilobytes (for images). We are not complaining about the web version of productivity apps like email, spreadsheets, project management, etc. loading slowly. But a newspaper article should load faster than a social media feed, and often they don't.