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You'd think that since Superfish was a web malware company, that intercepted web pages and added content to them, they would be competent enough to write a ten-
by 0942v8653 11y ago
You'd think that since Superfish was a web malware company, that intercepted web pages and added content to them, they would be competent enough to write a ten-line site without using a heavy, bloated website builder that makes 28 requests, most of them JavaScript. IIRC Wix was, until very recently, a Flash website builder.
- jrallison 11y agoSometimes, just maybe, the priority isn't to build something from scratch (however simple), but rather press a few buttons and move onto something more important.
- 13 11y agoWeb 3.0 is pretty much that. Load 10MB of JavaScript libraries sequentially, then every element on the page needs a new loader, 30 HTTP requests, and a web socket.
- MichaelGG 11y agoAnd that's after a 10-minute build process using some node-thing, which, just to minimize and spit out static assets, needs to pull in 14,000 files of dependencies.
- tgbrter 11y agoIs modern web really that bad, and are those the reasons that just visiting some of the popular websites overwhelms my brand new cpu?
- 13 11y agoSlightly exaggerated, but that sort of thing absolutely happens.
- MichaelGG 11y agoThe 14,000 files is an actual measurement of the node_modules folder for the build of a static site I've seen. npm is inane.
- fapjacks 11y agoStraw man. This is actually an EBKAC. Obviously, because I can do the same asinine thing in any language offering the ability to pull in dependencies.
- pdkl95 11y agoHow else are you going to create the "side effect" of allowing the page owner, the hosting company, several CDNs, 10 social media "partners", an ad-network or three, and google[1] to each log page views? [1] gotta feed the crack^Wanalytics addiction
- ChuckMcM 11y agoI don't think they were the web malware company, that was Komodia, they just partnered with them. Its a subtle, for me, but important difference.