Neglects to mention some of the slowness is real-time ad auctions.
People use the internet without adblockers?
Normies do. They vastly outnumber the “barely computer literate”
Nothing like having a check box suddenly move because an ad finally resolved and I end up clicking on the damn ad instead
I mean, this post makes no valid argument against JavaScript, there’s no benchmarks or anything aside from an opinion.
I don’t personally like webdev and don’t like to code in JavaScript, but there are good and bad web applications out there, just like any software.
A single page can send out hundreds or even thousands of API requests just to load, eating up CPU and RAM.
The author seems to know the real problem, so I don’t know why they’re blaming it on JavaScript.
Article is correct but kind of low effort. Web slow from too much JS and self serving framework vendors, got it.
Most of the web now is like that article.
AI has a role in turning pages and pages of text into one sentence.
It took me 3 hours to think and write that article. Maybe you wouldn’t call it AI generated if it was actually AI generated.
I appreciate you taking time out to write that. I enjoyed reading it, I think what the parent comment was trying to offer as criticism is that it ended sort of abruptly. I was hoping for a couple more paragraphs on either examples of modern sites or platforms that don’t overly rely on js or a way for end users to use these sites loading only the bare minimum js.
I could just google that information but I was enjoying your point of view. Anyway that’s just my 2 cents
Thanks! You’re right, I should have given some examples like reddit.com is too slow on low end hardware, and how amazon.com loads faster than aliexpress.com for not relying too much on JavaScript. But I thought anyone could ‘sense’ which website has more javascript, but I was wrong.
How current web developers no longer knowing what graceful degradation is ruining the web
NoScript ftw
Great now nothing works 🫠
You’re welcome.
Give a hoot! Read a book!
I like NoScript but I miss the old XUL version of NoScript. :(
Has saved my life. I find myself disabling it for an entire tab several times per day to do things like make a purchase or log in, but I’d still rather that than not have it on the rest of the sites.
Yeah even if you do that you can at least see the huge list of crazy scripts any given site is running. News sites are just amazing how they throw the kitchen sink at any visitors.
I constantly have to switch back and forth between turning javascript on and off to read articles. Those endless popups begging for my email address and google amp are also ruining the experience.