> Front-end web devs need to have more respect for power consumption and battery life they need to understand and believe that their wishes are not everyone's

> Front-end web devs need to have more respect for power consumption and battery life they need to understand and believe that their wishes are not everyone's wishes, and that they alone are the cause of their own problems. Everyone else works hard to give them the creative freedom they demand, but for multiple decades now they have demonstrated over and over how they love shooting themselves in the foot at every opportunity. > consuming 12% CPU before any user interaction on a page that’s otherwise substantially a plain or possibly RTFish text editor. How is that considered acceptable? It's not acceptable, unless you are a front-end web developer. If you are a front-end web developer, you don't consider this a problem in any way because the page looks as it is intended to look.