I quit reading the article on page 2. Because I suddenly got so tired of web pages being so bloated compared to the actual content I'm reading. Some compare the content to screen space ratio. I just happened to have activated the "Info" panel in Opera and, I saw these size figures:
page 1: main page: 11056 bytes, inline elements: 690770 bytes
page 2: main page: 11121 bytes, inline elements: 594014 bytes
That's too much for 30 lines of text. With images that are worthless in regard to the topic at hand.
Second thing, why can't the whole article be on a single page? I find it impractical that articles are chopped in that manner.
I know this rant has very little to do with the actual article but I've been noticing that the web is getting handled the way software has been handled these last years. Sloppiness seems to have become a standard. So much faster connections and yet, I don't see much improvement. So much faster CPUs and yet, no real benefit. I didn't even bother to launch Dragonfly but I wouldn't be surprised if, in addition to weighing too much for the content that's useful to me, the pages were tagged with no-cache. Can someone more enlightened than me provide some explanations about what is going on? Has anyone else noticed the same trends?
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