Comment by Tepix
21 hours ago
Sure, but there are sites like HN and there are sites like https://earth.nullschool.net/
What's your point? Are you saying all animations and rendering are unnecessary?
21 hours ago
Sure, but there are sites like HN and there are sites like https://earth.nullschool.net/
What's your point? Are you saying all animations and rendering are unnecessary?
My point is that many websites are using way too much technology for what they need to do, with correspondingly long load times and choppy runtime behavior.
Correct. But if the page is, at least in part, an art piece rather than an information dump, or needs to do interactive rendering for its purpose (an editor like the markdown example, live updating status displays, games and other interactive toys, etc), then the tech is necessary and this article is useful.
Which is something like less than one percent of websites, and this technology is deployed much, much more widely.
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