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Re:HTML5 App on a Floppy Disk by Keyneston on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @05:08PM (#5676960)
> This isn't 1983. Worrying about bandwidth, memory, and processing power (in user space) is no longer relevant.

Except not everyone is running a top of the line desktop in a first world country. Even in a first world country you have people on older laptops, slower internet, or even metered internet.

Minimizing the size of your app is still a worthy goal. Maybe not to the level pushed in the article.

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Re:HTML5 App on a Floppy Disk by dvt on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @05:17PM (#5677017)
>Except not everyone is running a top of the line desktop in a first world country. Even in a first world country you have people on older laptops, slower internet, or even metered internet.

If you're writing an HTML5 app, I assume your target doesn't comprise of Laptops from 1998 running IE5.

> Minimizing the size of your app is still a worthy goal. Maybe not to the level pushed in the article.

I agree.

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Re:HTML5 App on a Floppy Disk by ajross on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @05:37PM (#5677125)
No, it might simply be a phone from 2009 on a EDGE network with poor signal. Hell, I'm routinely annoyed by slow web apps on my very nice phone from 2012 on LTE...
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Re:HTML5 App on a Floppy Disk by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @06:05PM (#5677262)
>Laptops from 1998 running IE5 //

Nope but laptops from '98 running FF20 (and probably other modern browsers) are a possibility.

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