Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
by StavrosK on Thursday March 09, 2017 @09:55PM
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As a web developer, I feel the same way. The web has really devolved into layers and layers of crap.
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Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
by JensRex on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:09PM
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Ain't that the truth.
It's been about 10 years or so since I did any web development. And yesterday we had a thread here about CSS minifying, and one of the CSS files were ~250KB. What the hell kind of abominations are people making that need 250KB of CSS?
Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
by flukus on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:47PM
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10 years ago we had CSS minification, primarily to reduce the number of web requests. As a .net developer it was simple, you point it at your css and it combined and compressed it for you. Now the minifying is all about compiling to css, you have to run a node server to do it and the results are still more bloated than 10 years ago. Web development went off the deep end.
Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
by tracker1 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @11:38PM
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The results are from including all of bootstrap, even though you only use 3 parts, plus a theme that doesn't do a custom build, that overrides it all, then a couple other components with their own huge CSS, even though you're only using 1.
Without being judicious, it's easy enough to see happen.
Not to mention a few resource embeds to shave load time (fonts, svg, images, etc).