When it comes to bits, abundant to who? Those who can afford said abundance? Certainly not to those with bandwidth caps and slow internet access.
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw once: "What if climate change turns out to be a hoax and we end up making the world better for nothing!"
Since when is doing something efficiently and non-wastefully not a good idea for its own sake?
Since when is doing something efficiently and non-wastefully not a good idea for its own sake?
Do not denigrate the modern web in the name of efficiency when your measure for evaluating websites is wrong and you incorrectly assume that the difference between a 1mb and 10mb payload matters to the actual operation of the site and visitor satisfaction.
Re: That comic you once saw.
Yeah, what if we shut down all coal power plants and make the earth better? Oh wait, now we have destroyed our critical infrastructure and our government/nation has absolutely no leverage to even make decisions regarding the environment. If people would stop dumbing down these complex problems, it would be a good thing.
Not to mention, my reply is to parent comment, not to the article in general. In no way did I say I completely agree with the author of the article- that's not what my comment was about.
However, if a news article with a load of JS and ads is considered to be this "modern web" then good riddance to it. I hope it goes away.
Yes, cool things can be done with the web, and some of those cool things take a lot of bandwidth or payload to accomplish- the examples (news sites, etc) are not these things.
What are your reasons for thinking the modern web is terrific? I agreed with that statement when I saw it, but as I think about it, I'm not so sure I do
When the effort to optimize something would be better spent elsewhere.
On the web there are two important points. First, bandwidth isn't always abundant so optimising is worthwhile, and secondly optimising is effectively a negative cost if you just don't include wasteful features in the first place - building optimally is less effort than building wastefully.