The sad thing is, to quote The Website Obesity Crisis[1],
> Today’s egregiously bloated site becomes tomorrow’s typical page, and next year’s elegantly slim design.
Since this Reddit comment was made, the Twitter iframe responsible for the megabytes of JavaScript has been replaced by a <video> tag. The only JavaScript left on the page is Google Analytics, which is way less than 6MB.
I feel bad now that my comment received so much attention. I didn’t realize that the Reddit comment was made a year ago, and I should have tested the webpage size myself. The author’s argument is still important, after all.
Re:Software Disenchantment (2018)
by Wowfunhappy on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:40AM
(#21935650)
And this really wasn't the author's fault—it's completely logical that if your story contains a tweet, you should attempt to embed it in the way Twitter recommends.
This is Twitter, not some random framework!
Re:Software Disenchantment (2018)
by vadasambar on Thursday January 02, 2020 @06:40AM
(#21934579)
It fits in just under an MB instead of 6MB
> While I do share the general sentiment, I do feel the need to point out that this exact page, a blog entry consisting mostly of just text, is also half the size of Windows 95 on my computer and includes 6MB of javascript, which is more code than there was in Linux 1.0. Linux at that point already contained drivers for various network interface controllers, hard drives, tape drives, disk drives, audio devices, user input devices and serial devices, 5 or 6 different filesystems, implementations of TCP, UDP, ICMP, IP, ARP, Ethernet and Unix Domain Sockets, a full software implementation of IEEE754 a MIDI sequencer/synthesizer and lots of other things.
>If you want to call people out, start with yourself. The web does not have to be like this, and in fact it is possible in 2018 to even have a website that does not include Google Analytics.
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