[masklinn]

> That amount of data can still be downloaded over the slowest mobile link imaginable in a fraction of a second.

That's a bit of an excessive enthusiasm. EDGE is effectively ~200kbps (30kB/s) with ~200ms ping, so you're at a good 1.5s assuming no dropped packets.

And that's not "the slowest mobile link imaginable" by a long shot, GPRS is under 100kbps and before that was CSD (around 14kbps, with high speed CSD around 56k)

And CSD was already 2G, 1G was NMT, at 1200 bits per second.

None of these even require imagination, they're existing historical mobile links, most of which (GPRS up) are still in active use (I believe NMT has no deployment left, and while I'm reasonably certain most telecoms have dropped CSD I wouldn't bet that all deployments are gone)

[pekk]

SPAs aren't helping with this.

[tinco]

How are they not?

[s_kilk]

By requiring multiple megabytes of bullshit to be downloaded before they can even _begin_ loading actual content.