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because it turns out that it actually has a css animation to make all the content visible. after eight seconds.

Google actually built that into the AMP standard as well. When (if) JavaScript finishes loading, it will take the CSS away and make the content visible. Google also recommends this for their A/B testing platform.

The entire purpose of this is to prevent the page jiggling a bit when you load.


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This is tagged "bad opinion zone" but I feel like it's totally valid - as computer tech advances we seem to have the remarkable ability to just pile up massive towers of inefficient garbage and completely undo all of those gains. It's so frustrating. Computers should be lightning fast, but it feels like software is slower than ever. Nothing like clicking on something and then nothing freaking happens and I end up clicking the button several more times or refreshing because it turns out it's just loading stuff in the background and is just banking on things loading fast enough for it to not matter.

it is intensely funny to me, as someone who grew up using aol dialup to browse the internet, that so much of the web renders and feels even slower than it did back then.

this isn't AOL days but i remember when GDPR came out and a bunch of sites suddenly needed to strip their tracking JS and site loads were cut by like 90% if you called from europe vs anywhere else

... which i say because i think ad blockers are the only reason i'm able to slightly disagree with this opinion. comparing dialup PC to a rawdogged experience (as i do on mobile)... 100% agree

every now and then i like to play a game i call "turn off ublock origin and open the dev tools", the 15 megabyte anecdote was cnn i think (and that was with the videos blocked, lmao)

maybe it was weather.com

it drives me up the wall how text i/o is dog shit slow everywhere on modern computers. like how come we are 23 years from quake 3 launch and we have a perceptible lag in rendering/writing text what the hell

i guess the sad reality is that most of the places you might be writing into are running some sort of javascript layercake (electron for standalone apps) which in modern times is a patchwork of ???? from npm, and the only real place you might catch a glimpse of what computers should be able to do is when you work inside a terminal or something