WikiWikiWeb is back online

Re:WikiWikiWeb is back online by idlewords on Saturday October 29, 2016 @02:56PM (#12825660)

This is a regrettable redesign. Every page loads a megabyte of crap (640 KB "names.txt" file + 260KB jquery) and requires javascript for what could be a static text site.

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Re:WikiWikiWeb is back online by rcarmo on Saturday October 29, 2016 @03:51PM (#12825972)

Yeah. This tweet summarizes it nicely:

https://twitter.com/errstr/status/792418938881662976

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Re:WikiWikiWeb is back online by Keverw on Saturday October 29, 2016 @06:12PM (#12826717)

I wonder why they didn't use the minified version of jquery? Would of been a lot smaller.

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Re:WikiWikiWeb is back online by rcarmo on Saturday October 29, 2016 @07:18PM (#12827045)

Or Zepto. I saw nothing happening that couldn't be done with it.

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Re:WikiWikiWeb is back online by imode on Saturday October 29, 2016 @03:02PM (#12825691)

I really have to wonder why he did it instead of just migrating everything to a strictly static set of pages. no javascript.

the wiki's been locked for quite a while. why not keep it that way. the existing commentary is at least more valuable than the ability to edit it.

provide a static mirror, ward, and I won't have to mirror your "database" of json! ;)

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Re:WikiWikiWeb is back online by rincebrain on Saturday October 29, 2016 @05:21PM (#12826459)

If done correctly, that could be a constant overhead that the browser caches, and you move on.

That's not particularly helpful for people crawling and not keeping state between page hits, but it should make a difference for end users if done right.

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Re:WikiWikiWeb is back online by TheDrizzle43 on Saturday October 29, 2016 @05:14PM (#12826428)

The content is gzipped so it actually loads 384kb.

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