Re:Wikipedia in unseen UI
by nl on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @06:12AM
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To be clear, I'm not generally a fan of infinite scrolling either.
I'm not sure it is possible to talk about this in general terms - the specific use-case needs to be considered. In the case of Wikipedia, I think that the page size of a typical Wikipedia page isn't problematic.
I suspect it's actually pretty rare that the HTTP response size for text documents is big enough to be a problem. 1M of text is pretty large in terms of text, and most pages would have more than that in embedded images.
I'm not sure it is possible to talk about this in general terms - the specific use-case needs to be considered. In the case of Wikipedia, I think that the page size of a typical Wikipedia page isn't problematic.
I suspect it's actually pretty rare that the HTTP response size for text documents is big enough to be a problem. 1M of text is pretty large in terms of text, and most pages would have more than that in embedded images.