The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

Post by PoignardAzur » Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 11:34 AM UTC

rmnclmnt wrote: post #40

niea_11 wrote: post #25

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France: https://www.systeme-de-design.gouv.fr/

Will have to inform the french national services about it ("Ameli", "Impôts", "URSSAF"), apparently they are not aware of it!

Post by TheAceOfHearts » Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 11:38 AM UTC

codedokode wrote: post #55

atoav wrote: post #33

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Yeah but for what? I have been writing vanilla js for years now and aside from the sometimes slightly more convenient syntax I haven't missed a thing where using jQuery would have helped me over not using it. I don't say anything against loading useful javascript libraries, but too many websites load 1 MB of libraries just to get a result that they could have achieved with a few lines of handcrafted vanilla js. This…

jQuery is more convenient to use than vanilla JS. Vanilla JS is too verbose. If only jQuery was modular and didn't require to load 300 or 400 Kb of code. Also it is difficult to find non-jQuery library of a good quality. For example, I was looking for a small library to send and receive JSON via HTTP, and ended up writing my own wrapper around XMLHttpRequest (fetch() is a poor choice, it is not supported well in olde…

Post by solar-ice » Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 11:39 AM UTC

NohatCoder wrote: post #32

ctrlmeta wrote: post #4

Has anyone noticed how all UK government websites like https://www.gov.uk/ , https://www.nhs.uk/ , https://tfl.gov.uk/ , https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ have the same look-and-feel and the same UX? Are there more such examples of countries that have uniform UX for their government websites?

Coming from Denmark I'm impressed that they all use a uk domain, and they even have a system in place to distinguish official government websites from others. In Denmark we are like: Need a domain for our common ID and login system? How about nemid.nu, where .nu is the TLD of Niue, but "nu" means "now" in Danish, so lol, let's use that. On top of like 7 other domains that users are randomly redirected between during…

Post by redweka » Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 11:40 AM UTC

magnio wrote: post #16

ctrlmeta wrote: post #4

Has anyone noticed how all UK government websites like https://www.gov.uk/ , https://www.nhs.uk/ , https://tfl.gov.uk/ , https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ have the same look-and-feel and the same UX? Are there more such examples of countries that have uniform UX for their government websites?

Yes, this is an example of government design systems, which are becoming popular among developed countries: - The UK: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ - The US: https://designsystem.digital.gov/ - Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/government/about/design-system.html - Argentina: https://argob.github.io/poncho/ - Italy: https://designers.italia.it/ - Singapore: https://www.designsystem.tech.gov.sg/ - Estonia: http…

Post by _joel » Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 11:45 AM UTC

was_a_dev wrote: post #10

samwillis wrote: post #5

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They all use this design system: https://design-system.service.gov.uk . It's much more than just a CSS framework, it's full specifications on how to implement easy to follow and sensible UX. I wish there was more buy in by local councils of this system, there are some incredibly poor local government sites.

I imagine a buy-in by local councils is just that - a cost. And most councils are either poorly funded, poorly managed financially or both!