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A company I used to do web stuff for a fair while ago has employed someone on a monthly retainer to look after their web presence. Naturally, a decade or more after I did their sites originally, using JQuery and pre-responsive layouts, he's re-doing their stuff. Can't complain, my stuff had a good run, but it really could benefit from a refresh using contemporary web technologies.
But.. the replacements are.. not good. Built on layers of untrimmed frameworks and dependencies, the pages are a clusterfuck of over-information and heavy media. They're business sites - not media ones, so {imo} 6Mb for a frontpage with a fuckload of seperate assets that take forever to load in is not what I'd consider a well-made site.
it's entirely anathema to the way i do stuff, and symptomatic i think of much that is wrong with the bloated modern web.
But I can't really say anything because I'll just sound like a dick.
So here I am instead, whinging into the void.
They're also not as pretty as my sites were.
Sadface.
- there's no craft left, that's the problem. with fibre broadband who needs to care about page weight?hans_glib
- No one cares, and that is a problem. I have no internet at home right now, just on my phone, and is a pain in the ass that any random site is hundreds of MBs...sr_rosa
- ...or any phone app is asking for a new full download twice a week with no visible changes or new features.sr_rosa