On 07.09.2017 23:30, Daniel Veditz wrote:
​Without some kind of signal everyone gets the least-common-denominator version of a site
Exactly. That was the idea behind the web. Unfortunately, so many things have been added in recent years that browsers became more complex than operating systems and web coders take lots of dubious assumptions (gladly, they meanwhile learned not to dictate screen resolutions anymore :o), and the code of major sites becomes worse day per day. Just compare Facebook vs. VK: same functionality - FB is extremly slow and fat, VK is very slim and fast. Ergo: folks like FB should just do their homework (or become optimized-away someday).
(and even then older equipment or phones may result in a poor experience) or sites will try to guess based on user-agent.
Well, it's been a while since I was actively building web apps, (when PCs were slower than today's cheap smartphones). I can't recall any case where I had wished such an feature. My applications also worked well even on the early smartphones (eg good old Nokia communicator).
For images and things maybe CSS could specify some media queries that loads different resources based on local factors like amount of memory or network speed, but then that's leaking the same information just in a different way.
Not necessarily, and not in the same granularity. Of course it would be better, if requests to css+co wouldn't send cookies. (IMHO, cookies are a very bad invention to begin with) --mtx _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
