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by paulddraper 3494 days ago
Compression takes care of exactly this.
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xg15 3494 days ago
Unless compression cannot be used: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13049898

Also, there are still cases where compression cannot be applied, e.g. if a script naively queries innerHTML. (This wouldn't affect loading time but it could inflate the page's RAM unnecessarily)

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paulddraper 3494 days ago
Sure, but I'd consider those edge cases to be situations where the treatment is worse than the disease
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pixl97 3494 days ago
HTTPS is an edge condition? Over 50 percent of the web is now transferred via HTTPS.
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paulddraper 3494 days ago
It's not HTTPS. It's HTTPS cross-site requests with secret cookies.
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