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Comment by akdor1154 | Hacker News Reader

Damn it's nice reading a simple static site like this. Links open instantly to the next fully laid out page of content. If only the rest of the web could be like this..

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Worth nothing, that react application (using React Server Components?)! If you have javascript enabled, it renders as a single page app, fetching each additional page via an API. If you disable JS, it renders it all on the server.

Wow almost as good as handwritten HTML!

yes, that's why performance metric and on low-powered phones is so terrible. Look at that: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-http3-explained-hax...

That is a striking difference between mobile and desktop, why is that? (Also that is a very interesting site)

That's because on mobile, PageSpeed (which is a hosted version of the Ligthhouse dev tools you also have in Chrome) simulates a low-end Android device on a slow 3G network, which is what a lot of website visitors actually use (as opposed to the web developer using the newest iPhone on great WiFi).

That's why content-driven websites should not be an SPA, and why I built https://mastrojs.github.io

Ugh, that explains why it hangs for a quarter second any time I scroll with the mousewheel.

Agreed but where is the actual git repo? I see a text saying this "contents get updated automatically on every commit to this git repository" but where is "this git repository"?

I can't find a link to the source anywhere.

After a quick google: https://github.com/bagder/http3-explained

(using a search engine is faster than asking for a link on HN)

I found it on HN faster than I could have with a search engine because they asked :)

The introduction has a "help out" section which links to the github repo: https://github.com/bagder/http3-explained

https://github.com/bagder/http3-explained

Gitbook is not a simple static site generator.

There are a also ton of outbound requests for JS on first load.

[0]: view-source:https://http3-explained.haxx.se/

Damn it's nice to log onto Hacker News and see yet another top comment on an interesting article be bike shedding about webshit. And also wrong because if you crack open your react dev tools and have a peak inside the 2MB of javascript you'll see that this site is still everything you despise.

I see literally two dozen JS scripts run when I open the page.

+1000

I need fancy javascript crap like I need a hole in my head.

But how will the author know the last 500 websites you visited and where your eyes are looking right now and what you ate last Tuesday? They should put some AnAlYtIcS in.

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