David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Feb 11

Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.

Show threadWoozle Hypertwin

@david_chisnall I remember optimizing thumbnail-images to within kilobytes of their lives...

...and now apparently nobody thinks twice about requiring many MB of JS code per page-load.

(TLDR: this current nonsense is nonsense.)

Feb 11 at 7:54pmWeb
Show threadSheldonFeb 11

@woozle I'll just be happy if people stop serving images that should be jpegs or webp in png format.

@david_chisnall

Show threadWoozle HypertwinFeb 11

@sysop408 @david_chisnall

JPG screenshots 🔥

Show threadziviFeb 12
@sysop408 @woozle @david_chisnall nothing’s wrong with webp tho by all means use webp and avif
Show threadJack Yan (甄爵恩)Feb 11
@woozle @david_chisnall I still do! Old habits.