Jonathan Blow

You would want to render those fancy templates on the server and just push plain HTML to the client.

Computers, how do they work???

They hide the secret stuff :D

Someday you guys will stop making the Web worse, but maybe it won't happen until everything completely collapses, I guess.

I wonder how you would make Twitter without resolving all the templates on the server. Enlighten me :)

You are conflating many things that are simultaneously arbitrary and confused. What “templates” do you think are actually necessary, as opposed to being an arbitrary overcomplex way of doing things? Twitter is a relatively trivial application from a UI perspective.

I believe that it is the responsibility of the site owners to ensure that the client do as little work as possible. This simple Twitter page I'm currently at, which has about 3KB worth of text, has a memory footprint above 100MB. This is just wrong.

This is completely backwards. The point of a distributed system is to distribute work so the cost isn’t concentrated unrealistically in a central point. And you want the visuals generated on the client so they can be maximally responsive at e.g. 120Hz with subtle color changes