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by giantrobot 1338 days ago
> It's also less jarring for the user,

Jarring for the user? Are your users cavemen with severe PTSD? Loading a web page is not a "jarring" experience for anyone. Was the first load of your page "jarring"? Was loading a new page "jarring"?

This idea that users are hyper delicate flowers is ludicrous. Having a page stuck with a bunch of gray gradient placeholder elements while JavaScript loads and does whatever is far more jarring than a page that just loads.

Edit: autocorrect can get bent