[thelist] Whatever Happened to Fast Loading Pages?

martin burns martin at members.evolt.org
Tue Jul 11 04:27:14 CDT 2000


Ben wrote:

> Besides which, it's hard to mount anything worth having - in terms of
> visual effect - without spending 30KB just to get in the door. 

Have you seen http://www.sylloge.com:8080/5k/winners_overall.html ?
All under 5k, and there are some *very* nifty games in there.

> I'm
> doing some funky rollovers for my new personal site (no slices) and
> will somehow manage to keep the load at 40KB despite the fact that all
> of the text is bitmapped.  Call me picky, but when I make a type
> choice, THAT'S WHAT I WANT.

I'm sorry, Ben, but you seem to be confusing the web for print.


> Also, Optimization is something that I suspect people don't do often
> enough. 
Agreed on that one.


I don't see *why* you need to have one page suiting everyone. Why not do some clever server side sniffing and dynamically deliver your content in a suitable output template for the user agent (or the user's prefences)?

That way, you can do a version which is disabled accessible, you can do one which works on WAP, one which works on NN4's broken DOM and one which is standards compliant (and therefore works on IE5/Mac).

After all, any decent sized site should be thinking about a Content Management System (or have one already) anyway, separating content and presentation.

Cheers
Martin




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