The American flag loading icon is cute, but maybe it wouldn’t be necessary if http://code.gov was less than half a megabyte
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Replying to @Pinboard
The problem is less the 0.5M of the entire site and more the ~280KB of blocking script required to show something /
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Replying to @Pinboard
The root of the problem is lack of testing on actual devices over actual networks. Results in slowness
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Replying to @yoavweiss
with respect, the root of the problem is bloat. You don’t have to test vanilla HTML+CSS over a variety of networks
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Replying to @Pinboard
I think you're agreeing. You can have an 8mb html doc that renders once the first 20k lands. The type of bloat matters
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Replying to @jaffathecake @yoavweiss
I actually strongly disagree. “Bloat is okay as long as it renders quickly” is how we got into this tarpit
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Replying to @Pinboard @yoavweiss
of course bloat is bad by definition. But I'll take 100k rendering progressively over blocking.
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Replying to @jaffathecake @yoavweiss
I have become a bloat jihadist because I think people screw up progressive loading too routinely
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: I will not join your absolutism, but I salute it. Thanks for dragging this Overton window.
/cc @jaffathecake @yoavweiss
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