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This blurb was painful to read. The entire page, sans Adblock-able advertisements is 900KB-1MB. Granted, that includes: The site's scripts - which can ostens
by nkozyra 14y ago
This blurb was painful to read.
The entire page, sans Adblock-able advertisements is 900KB-1MB.
Granted, that includes:
The site's scripts - which can ostensibly increase usability
Images - which help tell the story, establish branding and increase usability
Stylesheets - which make a page visually appealing and increase usability.
If you want to complain about the state of the Web, at least take into the account that the Web/Hypertext is about more than just text.
- paranoiacblack 14y ago> If you want to complain about the state of the Web, at least take into the account that the Web/Hypertext is about more than just text. Yeah, I was wondering about this. Is he advocating turning the entire web into a text file? How does that even work with content rich websites like twitter or facebook or JS-necessary sites like your favorite music/video streaming site? Yes, encoding text with other technologies to increase the user's experience is going to make your file size bigger, but who cares?
- nkozyra 14y agoIt works poorly. The author makes the mistake in saying that everything that is not text is unnecessary and/or advertisement. There's a lot of cruft on most Web pages, but there's also a lot of valuable non-text info.