Who’s Afraid of a Hard Page Load?

I really liked this post by Alexander Petros.

Here’s the problem: your team almost certainly doesn’t have what it takes to out-engineer the browser. The browser will continuously improve the experience of plain HTML, at no cost to you, using a rendering engine that is orders of magnitude more efficient than JavaScript. To beat that, you need to be continuously investing significant engineering effort into cutting-edge application work.

Feb 6, 2025 · No comments yet