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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by swalsh on Friday April 22, 2016 @09:45AM (#11549085)
Imagine how fast the web would be if browser manufacturers could "approve" frameworks, and store them as a "standard library" of sorts. A global cache. Then you have ONE copy of jQuery for all sites on your machine.

Wanting to use a framework shouldn't be discouraged. The issue here isn't developers trying to save time, the issue is the shitty tools.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by toyg on Friday April 22, 2016 @09:51AM (#11549142)
Yeah, javascript historically lacks a stdlib and now it's so big that nobody could probably agree on one. Chalk another one for "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".
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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by adrianN on Friday April 22, 2016 @09:51AM (#11549140)
Look how long it took for browsers to kinda agree on how to interpret Javascript and HTML. Do you really want to add another way for browsers to behave differently?
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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by NoGravitas on Friday April 22, 2016 @10:00AM (#11549220)
This is basically what [Decentraleyes](https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes) does. It helps especially on mobile, though it's not exactly life-changing IME.
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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by tedmiston on Friday April 22, 2016 @10:12AM (#11549319)
I wish this could be possible.

Eventually you'll have to track every minor version of every library when not every site stays up to date. At that point it's (almost) effectively a CDN.

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