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by lofaszvanitt 969 days ago
Interactive websites are slow because they are including 1 MB frontend frameworks... and use these bloated modern frameworks to set a class on an element.
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Yes, I was just pointing out why having huge fonts/images isnt as big of a blocker as huge JS on today's JS heavy apps with "loading placeholders" and what not. The browser also does font replacement fairly smoothly.

Whether this whole bazaar is ideal or not is a separate issue :)