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With regards to the "usually a news site" part, somebody put me onto CNN's "lite" page the other day, and it's honestly a freaking joy to use. http://lite.cnn.com/en On the other hand, I think there's definitely a case to be made for rich, application-like presentation of content, when it enhances the delivery of information . For instance: http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ The problem is th…
The sad thing is that even if 100% of the people with personal websites would do the same, it probably wouldn't change much. And yeah, I'm firmly in the "this old computer should definitely render web pages if it's good enough to run video games" camp and if the people working on current browsers argue that it's complicated, with all the scrolling and JS and stuff.. Well good riddance, web of 2018 - it was absolutely…
> The sad thing is that even if 100% of the people with personal websites would do the same, it probably wouldn't change much. Why not? A significant portion of my web browsing is done on people's personal websites, since they often have cool things to share. If I'm going to get better performance on these websites, I might change my browsing preferences to favor these even more heavily.
So your web traffic might be to personal websites (mine is, too) - but we're a minority I guess.
So while the goal is laudable, even a 100% change would probably be a result of 20-30% of the web, I guess even less.
With regards to the "usually a news site" part, somebody put me onto CNN's "lite" page the other day, and it's honestly a freaking joy to use. http://lite.cnn.com/en On the other hand, I think there's definitely a case to be made for rich, application-like presentation of content, when it enhances the delivery of information . For instance: http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ The problem is th…
I am dreaming of a solution to bloat where all mainstream browsers would be throttling per-tab CPU/memory/bandwith usage to Pentium III-on-DSL-circa-2001 levels by default. (The "full speed" option should be there to keep power user from switching, but it should not be obvious to, say, 50% of users). This should be pushed as a feature : now your browser helps make your computer work faster; any slowness in page loadi…
I am dreaming of a solution to bloat where all mainstream browsers would be throttling per-tab CPU/memory/bandwith usage to Pentium III-on-DSL-circa-2001 levels by default. (The "full speed" option should be there to keep power user from switching, but it should not be obvious to, say, 50% of users). This should be pushed as a feature : now your browser helps make your computer work faster; any slowness in page loadi…
this is completely insane and would break huge swaths of the web.
I am dreaming of a solution to bloat where all mainstream browsers would be throttling per-tab CPU/memory/bandwith usage to Pentium III-on-DSL-circa-2001 levels by default. (The "full speed" option should be there to keep power user from switching, but it should not be obvious to, say, 50% of users). This should be pushed as a feature : now your browser helps make your computer work faster; any slowness in page loadi…
this is completely insane and would break huge swaths of the web.
With regards to the "usually a news site" part, somebody put me onto CNN's "lite" page the other day, and it's honestly a freaking joy to use. http://lite.cnn.com/en On the other hand, I think there's definitely a case to be made for rich, application-like presentation of content, when it enhances the delivery of information . For instance: http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ The problem is th…
>somebody put me onto CNN's "lite" page the other day, and it's honestly a freaking joy to use. That's neat, but I think having this with some lightweight, web-optimized static images would make this better without being detrimental to lightness. Sometimes a picture does say a thousand words. A photograph of a person being interviewed is something that adds a lot to an article. Plus there's the whole photojournalism…
Does it? It seems that it ought to add nothing to the content - unless the content specifically references their appearance.
As well as that, unless it's a person you can google independently (like a head of state, or large company CEO) there's very little chance you can know whether the image is actually the person being interviewed, and even less chance you can tell whether it was /this/ interview. What you do know is that the image will have been posed, chosen from a lot of candidate images, and quite likely edited after that.
It might feel good to recognise and see a human face, and therefore "add a lot" from the publisher side - exploiting that sense to make people click and keep people there longer - but that's not quite the same.
Great initiative. Site loads fast, text is readable, adblocker has nothing to block - what more could you want from website? You might want to look into optimizing SVG files, as Inkscape by default leaves a lot of unnecessary metadata.
I guess once the site is less bloated, then the next step is less bloated content. Could that message have been reduced to the length of a Tweet?
And after that, unpublish it entirely - we'll see the site has changed when we see it.
Fewer websites with less content. Only the most interesting things. Who could argue against that?