> So, now your simple news article or blog post takes ages to load on a 1 gigabit connection and requires about 3 times as much electrical power even though you

> So, now your simple news article or blog post takes ages to load on a 1 gigabit connection and requires about 3 times as much electrical power even though you're only serving text and perhaps a few images If all the website is doing is serving news articles or blog posts, then sure. But, web is increasingly used to build apps. Apps are different from documents. No, it isn't crazy to build apps that run in the browser; web has a fantastic distribution story. And apps can't be reduced to a markup language and a stylesheet.