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The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

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Re: The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

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Post by Banana699 »

wildrhythms wrote: post #46
iopq wrote: post #2

When I did web development, I specifically loaded JS lazily so first you got a pure HTML page with just a few lines of code. Those lines of code are normal (not jQuery) JS that loads the rest of the JS lazily in a progressive enhancement. This means the page can start being rendered before the jQuery code loads. But in fact, jQuery is largely not needed since Internet Explorer lost market share and there's less of a…

You have to really do some extra work to make this happen "nicely". Swapping out parts of the page without jerking the user around is a difficult problem, especially if you aren't working with fixed sizes of elements. And creating a "skeleton" system of placeholders during loading is a whole other set of state you have to build out and maintain. I find most sites using this kind of progressive loading are completely…

GP was talking about loading JS, adding JS to a webpage doesn't affect its rendering (unless the loaded JS is DOM-manipulating) does it ?

Re: The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

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Post by qlm »

samwillis wrote: post #93
paganel wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Related and maybe a little OT, but why does Transport for London have to include a big Google Ads banner at the top of the page?

TFL is a "Statutory Corporation" which is funded both by grants from local government and commercial income, the majority from rail+bus fares but also from activities such as advertising. There is a significant quantity of advertising placements provided by TFL, in the stations, on buses, bus stops, and as it seems on their website. TFL was almost bankrupted by Covid, I for one will give them a pass on the ugly adver…

Absolutely crazy that public transport even has the possibility of being "bankrupted".

Re: The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

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Post by qzw »

croes wrote: post #69
magnio wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I'm afraid there won't be anything like that in Germany any time soon.

Wait, the Germans, of all people, don’t have a standard government design system? Next you’re going to say the Swiss also don’t have one, and I’ll have to throw out my entire set of national stereotypes!

Re: The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

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Post by sethjr5rtfgh »

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?

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Re: The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

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Post by JackFr »

ejb999 wrote: post #21
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?

I wish more governments would do this to be honest - instead of having hundreds and hundreds of different agencies/localities all hiring different web designers all expressing their artistic preferences of how a website should work. I applaud the UK for this - the US and its various federal agencies/states/cities/towns should consider the same, not only as a cost saving measure, but making the experience predictable…

Slightly off-topic. Ok, off-topic.

I find it exceptionally galling that the so-called Inflation Reduction Act sends $80 billion to the IRS, of which $15 million is earmarked “to fund a task force that would study the cost and feasibility of creating a free direct e-file program.” Spoiler alert fellas - it’s feasible, and it should have been done 20 years ago.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11977

Re: The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

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Post by myfonj »

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…

- Czech Republic: https://designsystem.gov.cz/

Re: The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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Re: The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

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Post by LtWorf »

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…

And then when users fail to phishing: "users are so stupid and easy to trick… it's impossible to make things safe when people are so gullible"
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