Ephera@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agoStill wild to me that we built webpages like thislemmy.mlimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-square56!@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days 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-squareEphera@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day 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.