Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds...
by bscphil on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:27PM
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It's funny, you say
> It doesn’t matter what our opinions are or what we have/haven’t seen. The only thing that matters are what the performance measurements say in numbers.
But your only argument here is not numbers, but appeal to authority:
> > I'm not a front end dev
> But I am.
I don't have any particular reason to doubt you, but if objective numbers should rule the day here, maybe you could link to an article comparing the performance of a simple application using CSS selectors and then switching to using the DOM API?
> It doesn’t matter what our opinions are or what we have/haven’t seen. The only thing that matters are what the performance measurements say in numbers.
But your only argument here is not numbers, but appeal to authority:
> > I'm not a front end dev
> But I am.
I don't have any particular reason to doubt you, but if objective numbers should rule the day here, maybe you could link to an article comparing the performance of a simple application using CSS selectors and then switching to using the DOM API?