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   josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 21:26:48 JST josef

   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

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:45:09 JST Joe Ortiz

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     @jk And with the death of Net Neutrality in the US, expect this to become even worse.

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 05:05:57 JST Wolf480pl

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     @jk

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 05:06:31 JST Wolf480pl

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     • Mark T. Tomczak

     @mark @jk yet JQuery-based websites were somehow able to load on a netbook with Intel Atom and 1GB of RAM. IIRC you could even load more than one at a time.

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 05:06:32 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     @jk Yep. Because the UI abstraction stack never actually got good.

     To its credit, it did get less bad than it was when JQuery was king.

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     Possumantha (kastope@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 05:06:51 JST Possumantha

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     @jk when I made websites each image was degraded just to the point where you would not notice. Gotta shave the kilobits.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 05:09:54 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @GroupNebula563 @jk Or <figure><img src="css-anti-christ.jpeg"><figcaption>Good old HTML goes brrrr~</figcaption><figure>

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     Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™ (groupnebula563@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 05:09:55 JST Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™

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     MostlyBlindGamer (mostlyblindgamer@dragonscave.space)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 20:46:04 JST MostlyBlindGamer

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     @jk meanwhile, screen reader users get “Safari is not responding” for 10 minutes and then hundreds of divs out of order.

     Or just the divs if they’re using a sensible screen reader.