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Re:Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser by smt88 on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @05:35AM (#10418240)
Browsing could never be slower than what we had without modern CSS/JS: desktop applications. If you think we've lost anything (speed, convenience, whatever) with CSS/JS, then you don't remember (or willfully forgot) what the web was like in the 90s.
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Re:Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser by pjc50 on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @05:55AM (#10418295)
No, I remember the web from the modem days, and I'd be quite happy with pages from the modem era but loaded over 100Mbit Ethernet.
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Re:Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser by bananaoomarang on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @05:45AM (#10418261)
But that was because we were all using dial up, now the problem is the processing power required to crunch the overly-abstracted CSS/js output of our huge and complex toolchains.
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Re:Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser by guard-of-terra on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:56AM (#10418436)
It's not just processing power, it's all the round-trips and timeouts and social buttons delays.
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Re:Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser by gopowerranger on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @08:00AM (#10418628)
And advertising.
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Re:Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser by guard-of-terra on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @08:29AM (#10418728)
Dumb banners or text adverts would be pretty fast, but all that script-loaded, dynamically retargetted, real time bidded crap is pretty slow.
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Re:Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser by gopowerranger on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @01:59PM (#10420690)
Except dumb banner and adverts are NOT pretty fast and a frequent cause of the spinner still running long after the page loads.
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Re:Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser by guard-of-terra on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @02:28PM (#10420858)
Meaning they are not dumb enough.
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Re:Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser by gopowerranger on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @08:01AM (#10418634)
Without which we wouldn't need all the processing power and 640K of memory really would be enough.
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