On Wednesday 11 December 2024 05:42:41 pm Bret Busby wrote: > On 12/12/24 06:14, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > <snip> > > > However, what depresses me is the number of responses suggesting > > increasing memory etc. It's a sad state of affairs we have reached > > where simple web browsing (and it *should* be simple) requires such > > significant resources. Even banking should not lead to lag in window > > management. > > > I believe that the problem, and, the reason that the Internet (on top of > which, runs, or, hobbles along, the World Wide Web, hobbled by the web > applications), is the malignant use of javascript client-side processing. > > If the web application developers more properly used server-side > processing (and, even the sinister javascript has provision for > server-side processing), the World Wide Web, and, under it, the > Internet, would operate like they should, racing along, instead of > operating like a pair of decrepit cripples, like they are, crippled by > the client-side processing.
Agreed. I run a very sparse website (rtellason.com) and use almost no javascript whatsoever... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
