Re:The 64 Milliseconds Manifesto
by dahart on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:53PM
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Instead of assuming that "content" must mean "network response", imagine some other possibilities. A full-screen gray-out box with a centered loading spinner over a YouTube thumbnail, along with the thin loading progress meter on the video's timeline is an example of a "screenful of content" that doesn't equate to the network response.
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Re:The 64 Milliseconds Manifesto
by tedunangst on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @04:10PM
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That a loading spinner would count as content is a sad commentary on how little value YouTube video content must have. :(
It seems like you're still having a hard time imagining what "content" might mean aside from the network response.
In the context of a UI element or screen layout, "content" is the appearance of the UI elements on screen. The post, and my comment, isn't referring to web content or video content, it's referring to UI content.
Twisting my words to comment on YouTube's quality is funny, but irrelevant to interaction latency.