[dvt]

>Except not everyone is running a top of the line desktop in a first world country. Even in a first world country you have people on older laptops, slower internet, or even metered internet.

If you're writing an HTML5 app, I assume your target doesn't comprise of Laptops from 1998 running IE5.

> Minimizing the size of your app is still a worthy goal. Maybe not to the level pushed in the article.

I agree.

[ajross]

No, it might simply be a phone from 2009 on a EDGE network with poor signal. Hell, I'm routinely annoyed by slow web apps on my very nice phone from 2012 on LTE...

[pbhjpbhj]

>Laptops from 1998 running IE5 //

Nope but laptops from '98 running FF20 (and probably other modern browsers) are a possibility.