The web sucks if you have a slow connection

Re:The web sucks if you have a slow connection by 20years on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:24PM (#13601685)

Most of the web really sucks on fast internet connections too. Thanks to so many web developers thinking every dang thing needs to be a single page app using a heavy JavaScript framework. Add animation, badly optimized images and of course ads and it becomes really unbearable.

We keep repeating our same mistakes but just in a different way.

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Re:The web sucks if you have a slow connection by amiga-workbench on Thursday February 09, 2017 @12:06AM (#13604805)

I saw a sarcastic comment a while back saying that webdevs should be forced to work on a Pentium II machine and they would cut their bullshit, I laughed, and moved on.

But after seeing many examples where sites were built on huge iMacs with no care for users running off a battery, slower network connection or with an average 1366x768 display I somewhat agree with the sentiment.

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Re:The web sucks if you have a slow connection by scaryclam on Thursday February 09, 2017 @09:15AM (#13607022)

I tend to run web frontends in lynx (or links) to see if they can degrade well enough. If the core user flows don't/can't work then there's a big problem with the UI.

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