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Does it annoy you when unstyled content displays before CSS loads?
What's your ideal preference vs. practical preference?
- Load CSS asynchronously?
- Load CSS first and ignore the "Pagespeed Insight" complaint?
- It's not a big deal, nobody cares.
- Load all styles last.
- Load important styles first, unimportant last.
- Load CSS in stages and chunk out the visible parts with progressive gzip.
- Some other point of view.
- Nadya 11y agoI'm an extreme minority. I have CSS disabled and if your site isn't easily navigable without CSS, I leave.
- siquick 11y agoWhat are you reasons for this?
- Nadya 11y agoI visit websites for information and to read them. Not to see how fancy designers can make the page look. E: If your page doesn't make sense without CSS enabled, your content is a mess and no amount of design is going to make it better. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
- RexRollman 11y agoI like how you think.
- bbcbasic 11y agoI would upvote you but I can't without CSS.
- JorgeGT 11y agohttp://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
- pjbrunet 11y agoWhat browser are you using to turn off CSS?
- Nadya 11y agoI have a rule in my adblocker for ".css" which blocks all external stylesheets. Inline styles are rare enough and usually sensible enough that I don't mind them when they appear. I have a bookmarklet to remove them on a per-page basis if needed.
- siquick 11y agoIf it makes the page load quicker then I'm all for it.
- bbcbasic 11y agoIt's not a big deal, nobody cares. I'd prefer if it is readable without CSS though, as sometimes the CSS won't load from the CDN or whatever. That happens sometimes at home, must be something to do with my ISP.
- RexRollman 11y agoIt's not a big deal, nobody cares.
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- brudgers 11y agoI'm a bit confused by the question. On the one hand, it seems like it is targeted at users, since it's about annoying behavior. On the other hand, the options are technical and each of them is great when not leading to the user experience sucking and all of the suck when they lead to the user experience sucking. My preference then is for software that doesn't suck and the way to get there is by testing implementations rather than picking a strategy based on personal bias. CSS should make for a better user experience, and that means that nobody should be aware of it. Good luck.
- pjbrunet 11y agoI figure a large percentage of HN users are technically sophisticated, and that point of view is as interesting to me as the non-technical point of view.
- jamesdelaneyie 11y agoI'd take a look at the Gaurdian's (Newspaper) web team's presentation on this: Deck: https://speakerdeck.com/patrickhamann/breaking-news-at-1000ms-front-trends-2014 https://speakerdeck.com/patrickhamann/breaking-news-at-1000m... Video: https://vimeo.com/100505617 https://vimeo.com/100505617