alt Hacker NewsMy point is that many websites are using way too much technology for what they need to do, with correspondingly long load times and choppy runtime behavior.
My point is that many websites are using way too much technology for what they need to do, with correspondingly long load times and choppy runtime behavior.
Correct. But if the page is, at least in part, an art piece rather than an information dump, or needs to do interactive rendering for its purpose (an editor like the markdown example, live updating status displays, games and other interactive toys, etc), then the tech is necessary and this article is useful.