In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved

Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by Alex3917 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @04:29PM (#24054176)

> The last 5 years there has been a dramatic shift away from HTML web pages to javascript web applications on sites that have absolutely no need to be an application.

SPAs are a lot easier to keep secure though, so if you don't want your private data leaked then they're a much better option.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by randompwd on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:12PM (#24054539)

Any and all scripts that are loaded at any point in the SPA stay for the duration of the visit. 3rd party scripts are a big risk and not being able to unload JS scripts and associated in-mem/in-page symbols etc. is a timebomb waiting to explode.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by nicou on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @04:43PM (#24054297)

How are SPAs any easier to keep secure?

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by Alex3917 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @04:48PM (#24054339)

There's a very clear separation between the front end and the back end, which makes it easy to write tests that allow-list only the specific data that's supposed to be getting returned.

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