On 2020-08-13, Axel Berger wrote:
> Poprocks wrote:
>> Most sites are so over-loaded with JavaScript, HTML5 and other elements
>> that they *need* quite a bit of overhead to fully display at all.
>
> That's not the main point. Very few sites come even near to being valid.
> 90 % of the bloat (and the same share of the malware entry points) come
> from trying to second guess, whatever the author might have meant by the
> utter nonsense he wrote.
>
> The world would be a much better place now, if early on all browser
> vendors had agreed *not* to guess but simply display nothing but "syntax
> error" on all non-valid pages.
>
> Alas, that chance is long gone and so far away I find it hard to even
> dream.

I don't agree with that at all.  I'd say that accounts for some of the
overhead, but a very small percentage.

The real issue is that webpages have stopped becoming *pages* and are
now essentially applications in and of themselves, all being run through
essentially slow, interpreted languages.

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