2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware
@jk when I made websites each image was degraded just to the point where you would not notice. Gotta shave the kilobits.
@kastope @jk PNGCrush brute force mode to shave off that last 12 bits.
@log @jk do we need a background image or do we just use CSS gradient?
@kastope @jk There's only enough in the budget for a single pixel.
@log @jk yeah that's why I cut and paste letters from old web pages to make the text for new webpages. Cant waste a pixel.