Alex RussellJul 8, 2023

It is *intense* just how badly the JS/React brainworms have infected the frontend community.

Every single NYT story page has *both* a 437KiB (1.5MiB unzipped) *and* a 474KiB (1.7MiB) JS file, to display ~50K of text. It isn't ad bloat. It isn't tracking. It's this sort of bunk:

Show threadAlex RussellJul 8, 2023
An image map would be faster.
Show threadThomasAPowellJul 8, 2023
@slightlyoff careful the old powers of imagemaps should not be trifled with. The web ancients speak of these horrors and other unspeakable things like SPAs done with framesets or unnatural tags like <layer>. We must tread lightly over the web tech burial grounds. 🤣
Show threadbluestarultor

@thomasapowell @slightlyoff Honestly, go nuts. Nobody's cared enough to find mine, so I don't even feel bad about the spoiler, but the whole thing isn't that slow.

My site is almost 100% HTML and CSS, with only a JS redirect to mobile. (If you're on mobile, then I didn't duplicate the whole setup because it would be far harder to use.)

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