Re:JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site
by jfrunyon on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:29AM
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> The PSP’s web browser is – charitably – pathetic. It is slow, frequently runs out of memory, and can only open 3 tabs at a time.
I'm 99% certain that the latter part of that is false. Personally the PSP's browser was about on par with, eh, IE7 or so, the last time I used it (circa 2013).
Re:JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site
by forgotmypw17 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @01:27PM
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I love me some IE7, but that also sounds about right for IE7 performance on the average crappy website.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...
> A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London
> ...a young woman sits on a hard plastic chair ...Clutched in her hands is a games console – a PlayStation Portable.
> ...She’s connected to the complementary WiFi and is browsing the GOV.UK pages on Housing Benefit
> The PSP’s web browser is – charitably – pathetic. It is slow, frequently runs out of memory, and can only open 3 tabs at a time.
> But the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to. This is for everyone.