Alex RussellSo it seems like the BBC is making the Next/React mistake?
*sigh*
Tom Loosemore@tomski Let me grab a trace...
@tomski Having trouble grabbing one of the "new" site URLs reliably, but you might wonder to yourself, "self, why does it seem like this website briefly blinks out of this mortal plane at the 3-second mark, only to gasp back to life moments later?"
The answer, of course, is React.
@slightlyoff Urgh. That's terrible.
@tomski Looks like I can get to the "new new" version now:
https://www.webpagetest.org/result/231121_BiDc3S_DFW/
The amount of JS running on this page is *wild:*
dötcöde@slightlyoff @tomski as the first FED employed to work on FOX^H^H^H BBC News, all the way back in '97, I would like to state for the record that this makes me sick in my mouth.