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As an anecdote, the websites did seem to load slow for me. And as a previous commenter has added, I'm not sure a news hub is best suited as a SPA.

by rckrd 12y ago

bshimmin 12y ago
How do we feel about USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/ http://www.usatoday.com/)? That's a Backbone SPA and it seems to work quite well (though the adverts cause some loading unpleasantness from time to time). It's certainly highly debatable as to whether there is any genuine benefit in presenting a text-heavy (in theory) site as a SPA. Bloomberg does the moderately clever "one article follows another article" thing, which I personally quite like but others here were fairly negative about.
- jessaustin 12y ago
  (though the adverts cause some loading unpleasantness from time to time) It seems most sites that have speed/responsiveness/usability problems, get those problems mostly from their ads. It doesn't reflect well on the site or on the ad. I suspect it's because the metrics ad networks are using don't capture their crappy performance. I wish the original sites themselves would track ad problems and thus drive SLA compliance.
acjohnson55 12y ago
Agreed! With MPA, at least I can tell the browser's working. I don't think it's hopeless to do SPA for a news hub, but to me it seems like they should at least be prefetching to make transitions to new content seamless. They provided precious little context for how they're actually using SPA to enable them to do anything they could accomplish with MPA and caching. The article itself is all fluff and big claims with very little info about what's novel here. I'd expect better from a news org.
nirajshr 12y ago
SPA adds few advantages and possibility. For instance, the new bloomberg.com has infinite scroll of articles. And, new articles appear seamlessly at the bottom. This would be very clunky to do with non SPA approach. With SPA they can combine static htmls with dynamic content.
- duderific 12y ago
  I don't think you need SPA just for infinite scroll. You could have a regular page that loads some minimum number of articles, then just add a little javascript to that page to ajax fetch articles as the user scrolls.

As an anecdote, the websites did seem to load slow for me. And as a previous commenter has added, I'm not sure a news hub is best suited as a SPA.

by rckrd 12y ago

As an anecdote, the websites did seem to load slow for me. And as a previous commenter has added, I'm not sure a news hub is best suited as a SPA.

bshimmin 12y ago

How do we feel about USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/ http://www.usatoday.com/)? That's a Backbone SPA and it seems to work quite well (though the adverts cause some loading unpleasantness from time to time). It's certainly highly debatable as to whether there is any genuine benefit in presenting a text-heavy (in theory) site as a SPA. Bloomberg does the moderately clever "one article follows another article" thing, which I personally quite like but others here were fairly negative about.

jessaustin 12y ago
(though the adverts cause some loading unpleasantness from time to time) It seems most sites that have speed/responsiveness/usability problems, get those problems mostly from their ads. It doesn't reflect well on the site or on the ad. I suspect it's because the metrics ad networks are using don't capture their crappy performance. I wish the original sites themselves would track ad problems and thus drive SLA compliance.

acjohnson55 12y ago

Agreed! With MPA, at least I can tell the browser's working. I don't think it's hopeless to do SPA for a news hub, but to me it seems like they should at least be prefetching to make transitions to new content seamless. They provided precious little context for how they're actually using SPA to enable them to do anything they could accomplish with MPA and caching. The article itself is all fluff and big claims with very little info about what's novel here. I'd expect better from a news org.

nirajshr 12y ago

SPA adds few advantages and possibility. For instance, the new bloomberg.com has infinite scroll of articles. And, new articles appear seamlessly at the bottom. This would be very clunky to do with non SPA approach. With SPA they can combine static htmls with dynamic content.

duderific 12y ago
I don't think you need SPA just for infinite scroll. You could have a regular page that loads some minimum number of articles, then just add a little javascript to that page to ajax fetch articles as the user scrolls.