Archive: 2013-02-26
One does not simply … (Turbolinks edition)
The web is a profoundly broken medium in many ways. The network is unreliable, servers are unreliable, and the human beings who write code for dynamic services are most unreliable of all. Nonetheless, amongst all those problems, one that I’ve never really found significant is the milliseconds taken to load and process a page’s JavaScript and CSS—and if that were an issue, I think my solution would be to optimise and minimise the JavaScript and CSS, not write more of it!