[zeveb]

> Compare to "modern" SPA-monstrocities (like blogger.com until recently), where you had actual code written to defer showing the (1KB) content (which you came for), until several MBs of fonts, scripts and whatever had loaded, parsed and executed.

Whoever came up with that idea should be loaded, parsed and executed.

> We need to get back to the basics. The basics worked, and the direction we're heading is doing all the wrong things.

Frankly, it's gotten to the point that I don't even like using my smartphone anymore. Even with uBlock, sites take too long to load, they do annoying things with animations, colors and behaviour, and it's just generally a burden to use.

I just want to be able to read documents and follow links to other documents. The Web was awesome when it was a web of documents, linked together.

[markdown]

> sites take too long to load, they do annoying things with animations, colors and behaviour, and it's just generally a burden to use.

YOU THERE! YOU, SILLY USER!! YOU'RE SCROLLING WRONG. LET ME HANDLE SCROLLING FOR YOU!!

[hlandau]

Perhaps someone should port lynx or links2 to smartphones.