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Not a subway rider, and I hate another form of lazy loading: webstore filters. You go to buypc.com, pc parts / ram, check 16GB box, it starts loading. Later you check 8GB (it starts loading), uncheck 16GB, it starts loading again, check “2x kits”. As you may have guessed already, it starts loading. You see the page and want to scroll it, but the second load finishes and the content changes. Then the third. If you wan…
Also they’re probably not trying to save bandwidth but database servers.
Not a subway rider, and I hate another form of lazy loading: webstore filters. You go to buypc.com, pc parts / ram, check 16GB box, it starts loading. Later you check 8GB (it starts loading), uncheck 16GB, it starts loading again, check “2x kits”. As you may have guessed already, it starts loading. You see the page and want to scroll it, but the second load finishes and the content changes. Then the third. If you wan…
If I understand correctly your beef is with the fact that they don’t have an “Apply filters” button and not lazy loading? Also they’re probably not trying to save bandwidth but database servers.
At least that's the beef I have, and was reminded of when reading the parent comment.
Hardly any app is designed for subway riders. If they were, we'd have widespread preloading (like half an hour of tweets pre-loaded), seamless delayed posting (sending a new post when the internet comes back online), and visibility into what's downloading and uploading so users can make informed choices. As with all accessibility affordances, this will help people beyond the targeted group - like air travelers, folks…
It's the subway where you are that's not designed for apps. On Korean subways I stream video at max res throughout the ride.
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If I understand correctly your beef is with the fact that they don’t have an “Apply filters” button and not lazy loading? Also they’re probably not trying to save bandwidth but database servers.
Not OP, but I think the beef is that the act of applying a filter requires a reload of anything at all ("hey, server, please send me the list of only 16GB pairs this time"), when it's perfectly possible to just send the full list of items to the client initially and then have filtering apply instantly, client-side, on that already loaded list. At least that's the beef I have, and was reminded of when reading the pare…
Actually, in general I would like to see RSS (or even a more draconic, constrained form of RSS) be a relevant web standard for traditional information dense webpages.
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It is the web developers choice to decide whether or not to deal with bad/poor internet connections. Most do not. Lazy loading makes it impossible to do anything to manage a poor connection.
In this case it's also the choice of the user, they could choose to ignore the lazy loading tags (I know OP mentions their browser doesn't supports it, but they could choose another browser)
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If I understand correctly your beef is with the fact that they don’t have an “Apply filters” button and not lazy loading? Also they’re probably not trying to save bandwidth but database servers.
Not OP, but I think the beef is that the act of applying a filter requires a reload of anything at all ("hey, server, please send me the list of only 16GB pairs this time"), when it's perfectly possible to just send the full list of items to the client initially and then have filtering apply instantly, client-side, on that already loaded list. At least that's the beef I have, and was reminded of when reading the pare…
You'd think it shouldn't be possible. I have fewer than three thousand styles and fewer than thirty thousand style plus color options but strange legacy ERP decisions mean you have weird "data points" like memory capacity of zero for a power bank. Well, duh. It is a power bank. Why do we need to store data for it to say it's memory capacity is zero?
This is a solved problem with Safari since at least High Sierra days. You add any webpage to your reading list and with appropriate settings you'll have a full local copy. https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/keep-a-reading-list-s... relevant quote below... Save a page in your Reading List to read when you’re not connected to the Internet: Control-click the page summary in the sidebar, then choose Save Offline. You…
On a very basic level, maybe Mozilla Firefox reader view can ignore the loading equals lazy hint and load all images. One step deeper, maybe we can keep these articles in some kind of local cache?
Come to think of it, what happened with Pocket, that Mozilla acquired? We were supposed to open source the pocket server like five years ago. Did it happen? Does anyone even care about pocket (the read offline app) anymore?
Edit: https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75
Hardly any app is designed for subway riders. If they were, we'd have widespread preloading (like half an hour of tweets pre-loaded), seamless delayed posting (sending a new post when the internet comes back online), and visibility into what's downloading and uploading so users can make informed choices. As with all accessibility affordances, this will help people beyond the targeted group - like air travelers, folks…
If you have Youtube's paid version, you can have the app automatically preload content it thinks you'd like. This has saved my ass plenty of times when my ADHD brain needed content in places where I didn't have internet.