Javascript and it's consequences have been a disaster for the web.
Despite faster broadband every year, web pages don't load any faster
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#92I maintain that "booting a Mac, loading Chrome, loading Google Docs, and getting ready to type", takes as long as "booting DOS, starting Windows 3.1, loading Word for Windows 2.0", takes as long as "loading GEOS from floppy disk on a C64, loading geoWrite", and so on, and so forth.
If anything, it probably got slightly slower over the years.
Reminds me of that time when we switched from writing by hand (and sometimes typing on a typewriter) all kinds of forms and reports to composing them on a computer and then printing it: initial time savings were pretty huge and so, naturally, the powers that be said "well, guess We can make you fill much more paperwork than you currently are filling" and did so. In the end, the amount of paperwork increased slightly out of proportion and we're now spending slightly more time on it than we used to. A sort of a law of conservation of effort, if you will.
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#93Before I upgraded my macbook air 2019 to an m1 I could barely visit most "big" websites. I remember a redesign of a specific store that went from "perfectly usable albeit a bit outdated in term of design" to "10x slower, looks nicer but usability is dog shit"
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#94I used to be bothered by this, but in reality it works like a filter. The crappier the website, the crappier the content.
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#95The title of this post is annoying: Typically we say "faster broadband", when we talk about bandwidth, not about "speed" (which would be latency). So obviously, as long as your website is not larger than your bandwidth capacity, nothing is gonna get "faster", when you upgrade your broadband bandwidth.
This is the same as saying "Despite larger pipes every year, water still doesn't reach your house any faster".
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would only be true if every one of your customers had fast, loss free, reliable internet 100% of the time they want to access a website. Even in a modern city this is rarely the case. So I'm afraid the real answer is that webdev is just not mature yet.
Businesses don't need to provide a perfect experience to every one of their customers. If they did, they would. Like previously said, businesses are good at satisfying customer needs as dictated by their customers' wallets.
Ironically, the worst website I have to regularly navigate is my ISP's.
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100MB is a LOT. Do you perhaps mean 100KB? Streamlit is the framework I used to build the app at the bottom of the article with. It does unfortunately load a decent amount of JS. However it should be non-blocking, which means it won't interfere with how quickly you can see or use the page. It pings back to Streamlit to keep your session state alive as it's running a whole Python interpreter on the backend for each se…
Using a wasteful app to complain about bad page design. Oh irony.
It seems to ping with about 800B for a response of about the same size every 2 seconds. So every minute that's about 25KB up and 25KB down.
I wouldn't do it like that, but to call that wasteful when many websites need 5MB of ad code before they let you see anything is a bit over the top!
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#99Classic rebound effect. Same thing for cars.
> Contrary to popular belief, the average car is not in fact that much more fuel-efficient than older cars. Still, to this day, the average vehicle has a range of between 20 and 30 miles per gallon; a stat which was very similar in the 1920s. But, why is this? Well, cars are a whole lot bigger.
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#100Idk about fast, but a broken back button is kind of a problem.
I wish my browser to save the full state of js app on every action firing which use to alter the state. No matter how much storage is needed for this approach.
You'd be better off saving a copy of the images and code and recording your UI playback!
Or just stream is as video on Youtube and let Google pay for the storage :)