Ephera to Programmer HumorEnglish · 1 month agoStill wild to me that we built webpages like thisimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1223arrow-down113cross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
arrow-up1210arrow-down1imageStill wild to me that we built webpages like thisEphera to Programmer HumorEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.dev
minus-square56!linkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month agoThe JavaScript isn’t slow at rendering, it’s re-doing all the network requests. It re-loads parts of the page each time the layout changes.
minus-squareEpheraOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoOh damn, that’s worse than I thought. That does make it look a lot more “Meh, fuck it.”, like they don’t have events set up to re-trigger just the re-rendering, but rather they jump to the start of a big download-and-render-everything function.
The JavaScript isn’t slow at rendering, it’s re-doing all the network requests. It re-loads parts of the page each time the layout changes.
Oh damn, that’s worse than I thought. That does make it look a lot more “Meh, fuck it.”, like they don’t have events set up to re-trigger just the re-rendering, but rather they jump to the start of a big download-and-render-everything function.