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Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices by yawaramin on Saturday March 16, 2024 @08:14PM (#39730639)
> The only thing that might is a wholesale different client architecture that sacrifices features and polish to provide the slimmest code possible. That is, an alternate "lite/basic" mode. Unfortunately, this style of approach has rarely proved successful

But it is gaining popularity with the unexpected rise of htmx and its 'simpler is better even if it's slightly worse' philosophy.

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Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices by golergka on Saturday March 16, 2024 @08:16PM (#39730657)
Isn't that 'worse is better' philosophy?
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Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices by LoganDark on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:19PM (#39731367)
I think it's rather a "performance is more important than functionality" philosophy.
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Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices by yawaramin on Saturday March 16, 2024 @11:39PM (#39731744)
In the case of the devices we're talking about, performance is effectively functionality.
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Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices by LoganDark on Saturday March 16, 2024 @11:41PM (#39731753)
My point exactly. By making your website fast and light, you make it easier and more pleasant to use. HTMX has a limited set of actions that it supports, so it can't do everything that people typically want. It can do more than enough though. (remember websites that actually used the `<form>` element?)
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Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices by lukan on Sunday March 17, 2024 @06:17AM (#39733290)
The most performant site is a blank page.
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Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices by fuzzfactor on Sunday March 17, 2024 @12:05PM (#39735384)
Astute observation.

It should be easy to use this as a "north star" and your only job is to not screw it up hardly at all.

Some people are just worse screw-ups than others.

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Re:How web bloat impacts users with slow devices by sussmannbaka on Monday March 18, 2024 @02:48AM (#39741022)
Good news for bloated JS SPAs, since that is often what they look like :)
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