Comment by wmanley
10 hours ago
The counterargument: In Defence of the Single Page Application:
https://williamkennedy.ninja/javascript/2022/05/03/in-defenc...
10 hours ago
The counterargument: In Defence of the Single Page Application:
https://williamkennedy.ninja/javascript/2022/05/03/in-defenc...
Funny enough. I’m opening this on mobile internet connection and it stuck at loading spinner. I don’t know if the problem is with my internet (probably not) or support for mobile so I can’t even read the content.
I think that's the joke :) all other articles load fine instantly, just this one that has a spinner
Heh it got me then :)
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My guess it’s a joke.
it's a sarcasm loader
Sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from reality.
Ages ago when writing.com was first modernizing its site, they started by hiding story content to display a spinner, waiting a second or two, then re-displaying the content. It was on the page the whole time, they just made it look like it was loading in the background.
https://medium.com/luminasticity/on-the-triumph-of-satire-fa...
"Satire isn’t dead.
Satire won.
This is what it looks like from inside, looking out. "
Discussed at the time:
In Defence of the Single Page Application - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31275178 - May 2022 (32 comments)
All I got is a "loading" animation. Gave up after 10 seconds. So, not a counterargument, but a confirmation of the article's thesis.
It's a joke/sarcasm
I wish I hadn't read the replies. I love being made the fool (though not to worry, I'll have plenty of other opportunities, likely today!)
I got wooshed.
Nice work!
I have to say that I hate SPAs. It is often a far worse user experience than the vanilla multi-page websites.
Like most defenses of Single Page Applications it managed to make me angry, at least at first.
lol this got me