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by lazyjones 2187 days ago
Does anyone else fondly remember the time when JS was often used to reduce page size and increase loading speeds?

Here's an example from memory: https://web.archive.org/web/20030806180507/http://www.tweake...

As download speeds increased, this went out of fashion, only to be replaced by (often obnoxious) JS-based UI elements.