Ephera to Programmer HumorEnglish · 2 days agoStill wild to me that we built webpages like thisimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1213arrow-down112
arrow-up1201arrow-down1imageStill wild to me that we built webpages like thisEphera to Programmer HumorEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-square56!linkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 day 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-up1·19 hours 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.