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Ah, it might make the web faster on mobile. Not very interesting.

• jpatte 12y ago
  As the border between mobile/portable devices and dektops/workstations keeps getting blurrier, this "on mobile" concept will probably just lose any sense in the near future.
• tomelders 12y ago
  Probably not. In my experience I've found that images are usually higher res (and bigger file sizes) that on mobile devices.
• joezydeco 12y ago
  Mobile is getting worse, IMO. Maybe it's because I have an older iOS device running 6.1, but the insane size of some of these sites combined with all the side-loaded javascript and CSS rendering (and re-rendering) is just making sites completely unusable. How come I can load Metafilter in 3 seconds, but Wired takes over a minute, if it works at all? And Medium? Even worse.
  • Pxtl 12y ago
    OMG this. It's insanely frustrating that 90% of the time we're just reading text and it's so painful on older mobile devices that still should run circles around computers that happily consumed internet content ~10 years ago.
    • nfoz 12y ago
      The web used to provide text, and allow the user-agent to render it as appropriate for that display/user. Now the web is a (bad) application platform, where the content designers demand full control of interactivity. As a user you are not well-served by the modern web. It's not the devices per se it's also the content that is different than ~10 years ago.