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by wahern 606 days ago
> what the hell are frontend devs thinking!? Multiple MB's in JS for a news website. Hundreds of KB's for HTML. It's totally unreasonable

They're thinking, "adding [some fraction of existing total payload] for such a high quality [feature] actually borders reasonability". Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
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rmbyrro 606 days ago
You're comparing 2 Mb of useless and broken animated scrolling with 400 Kb of SQLite, which tells me you have no idea what's behind SQLite's 400 kb.

High quality software is something I rarely see nowadays when browsing "modern" websites.

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Dylan16807 606 days ago
> They're thinking, "adding [some fraction of existing total payload] for such a high quality [feature] actually borders reasonability". Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Context makes all the difference here. If you're considering a big chunk of size for a relational database engine, you need to ask: are you making a complex application, or a normal web page? If it's the latter, then it's not reasonable at all.

And anything that makes the HTML itself that big is almost certainly bloat, not "high quality", and shouldn't be used in any context.

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