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by the1 4480 days ago
yes. for mobile pages, use minimal css and no javascript.
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adamors 4480 days ago
Are people still making mobile pages though?
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Cthulhu_ 4480 days ago
Yes; a lot of companies that want to make their services available to mobile users (which is a pretty damn large market) but do not have the capacity or do not want to invest in native apps will want their developers to build a mobile webapp, responsive website, or hybrid app.

Disclosure: I'm rebuilding a pretty big BackboneJS app (which I started building two years ago with a team that grew to two dozen people) into an AngularJS-based mobile webapp.

Note also that AngularJS is a whopping 700 KB before minification and gzipping (270 KB minified/gzipped).

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thepoet 4480 days ago
Did you add an extra zero in gzipped size for a previous version ? Current AngularJS is 36KB minified/gzipped, 100KB minified

Here is the file http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.14/angular.min.js And here you can get the gzipped size http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home

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wil421 4480 days ago
Not making mobile pages but making pages that are responsive.
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enscr 4480 days ago
? Bootstrap, Foundation are all mobile first ...
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criswell 4480 days ago
I think they're talking about strictly mobile pages.
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aurumpotest 4480 days ago
No JS.. at all?
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the1 4480 days ago
yah. I usually first build REST API using HTML as main representation of resources. It looks ugly. But fully functional. Then I add user facing rendering that adds CSS, Javascript, and possibly transforming representation. For mobile pages, I rarely add javascript.
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