Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages
by dijit on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:18AM
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I think you're not making the same point as me at all.
I'm going to take the common case of a news article;
Imagine for a second, you're on a train and you have low bandwidth internet, when it works, which is rare. Now you're on hackernews and you've loaded a whole comment thread, you're reading through and someone posts a link to your article.
Now, the article can load with client side routing, but will take longer. And depending on implementation might not actually have the whole article.
The page which is pure html with minor javascript is going to load, in full, and I don't need subsequent requests. And, it's guaranteed to be smaller than the one that you're over-engineering.
I'm going to take the common case of a news article;
Imagine for a second, you're on a train and you have low bandwidth internet, when it works, which is rare. Now you're on hackernews and you've loaded a whole comment thread, you're reading through and someone posts a link to your article.
Now, the article can load with client side routing, but will take longer. And depending on implementation might not actually have the whole article.
The page which is pure html with minor javascript is going to load, in full, and I don't need subsequent requests. And, it's guaranteed to be smaller than the one that you're over-engineering.