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Yes, I'm sure Facebook and their stable of developers just never thought of that. How silly.

• TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  I think Facebook do know what they're doing, but are perhaps putting energy into the wrong things. Using a ton of JavaScript to avoid ever having to load another page is a nice idea, but it ends up bogging down the client. Using a lot of abstractions away from the DOM makes things slow. An occasional page load is probably beneficial. I'm also unconvinced they can't scale down images server-side to make them more mobile-palatable.
  • timpeterson 14y ago
    @TazeTschnitzel agreed, but then what would fb engineers do all day? they gotta "keep shipping"
• notatoad 14y ago
  because they're a big company with a lot of staff, everything they do must therefore be "the right way"? That's a fallacy if i've ever heard one.
  • eli 14y ago
    True, but it's incredibly easy to play "armchair project architect," when you don't actually know anything about how a project works or its requirements or constraints. Maybe this is a personal flaw, but I can't count the number of times I've looked at a project and thought "that's a stupid way to do it" only to later realize the problem is far more nuanced than I thought.