Yes, it is. Networking eats time. Worse, the user experience is quite annoying on bad and unstable connections. Any smooth UX is doomed for people who is acessing the page from another half of the planet.
But not every site strive for smooth UI experiences for their users, which is ok.
Page refresh doesn't happen fast enough as background interactions and rendering result as it arrives. This implies SOME logic on a client.
This is specifically true for remote sites. You will have at best speed of light delay before retrieving content. In worst case network fluctuations might give very annoying delay just to get new content. Yes, and you customer will be staring at WHITE page, because browser viewport have nothing to render.
This is why I am so assertive.
If you don't like it, fine - learn your way ;)
Modern browsers smart enough to cache your megs once and then transmit pure json back and forth, reducing overall need for bandwidth. Plus it happens behind the scene, so customer might enjoy that spinner animation or enjoy previously loaded content.
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Yes, it is. Networking eats time. Worse, the user experience is quite annoying on bad and unstable connections. Any smooth UX is doomed for people who is acessing the page from another half of the planet.
But not every site strive for smooth UI experiences for their users, which is ok.
Why are you asserting that you cannot have a "smooth UX" with this approach. What is not smooth about how it works now?
I'll tell you what isn't smooth, downloading megs of javascript and executing it on a low power device.
Because I was using 90xx web.
Page refresh doesn't happen fast enough as background interactions and rendering result as it arrives. This implies SOME logic on a client.
This is specifically true for remote sites. You will have at best speed of light delay before retrieving content. In worst case network fluctuations might give very annoying delay just to get new content. Yes, and you customer will be staring at WHITE page, because browser viewport have nothing to render.
This is why I am so assertive.
If you don't like it, fine - learn your way ;)
Modern browsers smart enough to cache your megs once and then transmit pure json back and forth, reducing overall need for bandwidth. Plus it happens behind the scene, so customer might enjoy that spinner animation or enjoy previously loaded content.