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Sure, but think about the past thirty years of web browser development. Every time software developers make a faster browser with cool new features, content de
by OhMeadhbh 2y ago
Sure, but think about the past thirty years of web browser
development. Every time software developers make a faster browser
with cool new features, content developers make content that uses
all that new capability. It's sort of the content equivalent of
Wirth's Law (software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware
is becoming faster.)
Developers almost always have reasonably beefy hardware setups
(because the software they use requires plenty of memory or
compute resources.) Does the OP's observation imply there's a
wider range of hardware out there? Maybe people constructing the
pages they're complaining about assume everyone will be on a
kick-ass machine with the best GPU money can buy and on a
low-latency / high-bandwidth network. Maybe it's an observation
that too many web developers don't consider consumers with more
mundane circumstances.
Also... I use Lynx and EWW a lot. The web seems pretty zippy when
you're ignoring the images and javascript. But yeah, that's not a
general solution, too many sites require javascript to function.
- pdimitar 2y agoIt's not JS that's the problem per se, it's what JS is being loaded and very often that's a metric ton of marketing crap i.e. stuff for retargeting, tracking and many other modern horrors.
- _tom_ 2y agoAnd half the problem is not that there is one bit of software doing tracking, it's that there are fourteen different package that different people added at some point, all doing similar things.
- pdimitar 2y agoYep, that too. Many people made measurements over the last 10-ish years and the ratio between content and marketing stuff is something like 250:1 at least. On some websites it was 10x that.