On 19/Jul/18 17:08, Tei wrote:
tl:dr: the web is evolving into a network of applications, instead of documents. Documents can't "break" easily. Programs may break completelly even to tiny changes. Maybe getting webmasters on board of biasing in favor of documents could do us all a favour.
Yes, that would be great, but I recall there was someone asking about deploying a WISP in rural America several weeks ago and how to deal with these "busy" web sites of 2018. And your suggestion was one of the proposals NANOG suggested to the OP. While it'd be good for webmasters to optimize the content they create, I appreciate that as the Internet continues to develop, web sites and content will only get a lot more dynamic and complicated, to appeal to the human desire for "pretty nice shiny things". Certainly, optimizations for mobile devices is better than for laptops/desktops for obvious reasons, but as those mobile devices keep adding power, it will slowly release the constraints webmasters have when developing for said platforms. So in terms of effort expended, I'd be losing if I tried to get content creators to simplify their content. Rather, I'll hunt down opportunities that encourage content to move closer to our markets. Mark.