Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'?
by twobyfour on Thursday October 19, 2017 @04:23PM
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Sure, but why do I need that crap on pages without rich media? And why do I need to wait for my browser (since it's on a computer other than the latest model iMac) to spend 20 seconds rendering that mess of JavaScript before I can view that content (text OR rich media), when it could display vanilla HTML faster than I can blink?
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'?
by tarboreus on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:50PM
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I'm with you. You'll frequently see news stories with 3-5 MB of junk to augment a < 50 kB piece.That's more information than all of published human writing before 1800. Sorry, but that's stupid, and looks bad. Yes, a good chunk of that is ads, but a lot of it is loading all of two versions of bootstrap so you can use one class and similar silliness.