I feel this discussion is going a bit beyond the scope and it is not very polite to take over a post. So, maybe we should start a new thread about the future of webdesign somewhere else.
This post was about the advantages (or possibly disadvantages) of Javascript, not about slow networks. IF "JavaScript has become the largest bottleneck of web performance", this was real serious. It is just not what I currently can see.
Let be serious about JS performance. I had real concerns about that, and if the performance was just that bad, I never hat thought one second about using JS to build applications.
WebPageTest puts it about 4.6 seconds for "Mobile, Fast 3G"
Maybe you have heard that 3G was switched off (at least in germany)? We are also not supporting windows XP anymore, but who cares? I checked the page on the oldest devices I could get, a 10 year old mobile phone, my oldest tablet and others, but none of the devices was nearly as slow as mentioned. Indeed, the bottleneck is 3G, not the JS performance. But with a slow web, any interaction will be slow, regardless of the technology.
YES, we should care for poor performance. And YES, maybe QWIK is the next big thing in webdesign. But todays mobile devices are far from being slow, my daughters smartphone has more memory than my laptop. Why should we not make use of this power? You can do more with a browser than looking on websites.
(again: Please stay on topic. I really like to learn about new trends in web design and performance, but maybe we start a new post on that? Thank you very much!)
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I feel this discussion is going a bit beyond the scope and it is not very polite to take over a post. So, maybe we should start a new thread about the future of webdesign somewhere else.
This post was about the advantages (or possibly disadvantages) of Javascript, not about slow networks. IF "JavaScript has become the largest bottleneck of web performance", this was real serious. It is just not what I currently can see.
Let be serious about JS performance. I had real concerns about that, and if the performance was just that bad, I never hat thought one second about using JS to build applications.
Maybe you have heard that 3G was switched off (at least in germany)? We are also not supporting windows XP anymore, but who cares? I checked the page on the oldest devices I could get, a 10 year old mobile phone, my oldest tablet and others, but none of the devices was nearly as slow as mentioned. Indeed, the bottleneck is 3G, not the JS performance. But with a slow web, any interaction will be slow, regardless of the technology.
YES, we should care for poor performance. And YES, maybe QWIK is the next big thing in webdesign. But todays mobile devices are far from being slow, my daughters smartphone has more memory than my laptop. Why should we not make use of this power? You can do more with a browser than looking on websites.
(again: Please stay on topic. I really like to learn about new trends in web design and performance, but maybe we start a new post on that? Thank you very much!)