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McDonald's HTML5 promotion site

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Re: McDonald's HTML5 promotion site

#13
post #10

I liked it as a demo, but was incredibly slow to load for me, and I dont see anything that indicates a large amount of data is being loaded

All I see is the Win8 spinny dots. I can't tell if it's actually going to load something, or if a connection is being blocked (by my gamut of ad and data prevention plugins) and I'm waiting for a timeout.

Re: McDonald's HTML5 promotion site

#17
post #10

I liked it as a demo, but was incredibly slow to load for me, and I dont see anything that indicates a large amount of data is being loaded

Funny, I was literally just thinking it was incredibly snappy for all the large images, and fairly intricate styling.

Re: McDonald's HTML5 promotion site

#19
post #10

I liked it as a demo, but was incredibly slow to load for me, and I dont see anything that indicates a large amount of data is being loaded

If you look at the source, you can see why it is slow. Tons of js linked in there, right in the , no minification. They even embed jQuery twice on there (1.3.2 then later on 1.6.2). Also, lots of inline styles on the page. Looks like they are using a CMS, not sure which one though.

Nevertheless, that 3D rollover effect and infinite scroll in all directions is pretty fun.

Re: McDonald's HTML5 promotion site

#20
Slow initial load for me as well...there is alot of assets in the head that aren't loaded async.

This is kind of a pet peeve of mine for sites that are utilizing so much HTML5...why not use appcache manifests? I understand setting caches directly through the instance, but it might just be me, this is one of my favorite features in server load reduction!

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