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by dleslie 2000 days ago
The web loaded and rendered faster because Javascript was used sparingly, if it was used at all. XMLHTTPRequest didn't become a thing until 1999 and didn't catch fire until later, and so async requests just didn't happen.

For a short window of time we were using 1px flash objects to act as an async intermediary...

Yeah, I miss the static web.
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anthk 2000 days ago
Yeah, I know. I still use Dillo because almost everything is usable. at least fora, news sites and such.

Except this site, which I find atrocious having to use JS in order to search. I use DDG/Google on just the domain (site:news.ycombinator.com) and call it done.

But well, no mpg123's unless being played at a reduced band (11MHZ, mono). If converted to mp2, the files would be bigger, but playable at highest quality.

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dleslie 2000 days ago
How do you feel about NetSurf? I still prefer Dillo, but NetSurf looks promising.
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anthk 2000 days ago
Too crashy (I use v4.0), and slower on rendering than Dillo, by far.

Also, I can't set the User Agent to anything else, in order to fix rendering errors. For example, the PSP one, still supported on tons of sites. Or the first Opera Mini releases, pre v5.

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