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bluGilllast Thursday at 9:21 PM1 replyview on HN

Can we get web sites to optimize as well? I use a slower laptop and a lot of sites are terrible. My old Sparc station (40mhz) had a better web experience in 1997 because than people cared about this.


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giantrobotyesterday at 3:03 AM

Hey XML is ucky, we wouldn't want to just serve it directly and let XSL "hydrate" it in the native browser engine. It's a way better idea to download Doom 2 worth of JavaScript and use a data serialization format without built-in schema validation.

Why get all that capability for inside a native browser engine? We should reinvent all of it to run as JavaScript!