On 06/02/2015 07:51 PM, weaselcat wrote:
I have to disable javascript on amazon.com to be able to use the site or else it brings my browser to a crawl.
When I finally figured out how to hack (by that I mean "load it down with an endless list of add-ons" and THEN waste an evening configuring) a modern Firefox to be tolerable, I thought I was finally in pretty decent good shape. (Well, at least until I was subjected to Mozilla's next couple rounds of UI blunders anyway...)
But now that I've finally accepted defeat on "screw cellphones" and been in the android habit for over a year, I've found myself in a new web hell: Now, no matter what mobile browser I use (Chrome, Firefox, Dolphin, or the amazingly-incorrectly named "Internet"), I have a choice:
A. Use the goofy, straightjacketed, sluggish "mobile" versions of websites (Wikipedia's is particularly bad, what with the auto-collapsing of every section on the entire page *while* you're scrolling and reading and then again every time you navigate "back" to a section you'd already re-expanded manually. Gee, thanks for closing my book, Wikipedia, never mind that I was reading it.)
Or B. Switch on "request desktop site" mode and get *improved* mobile UX but can easily take 30 seconds to a full minute (per page) before becoming responsive enough to accept clicking on a link. And that's for pages that aren't even dynamic beyond the initial flurry of JS onLoad() nonsense.
(Seriously, nearly anything that can be run during onLoad(), BELONGS on the server. Why would ANYONE in their right mind EVER make every single client do several Ajax/REST/whatever requests, THEN render the EXACT SAME page every time, for every single incoming request? Instead of, oh, I dunno, rendering the EXACT SAME page ONCE when content ACTUALLY changes and having the server spit THAT out to every request? Not enterprisey enough, I guess. Really, how often does a blog or news site actually post or modify an article? That exact same pages REALLY need to get completely regenerated on every hit even though NOTHING has changed since the last 500 hits?)
What I find very interesting is that it's consistently big businesses that have the most impossible-to-use sites. Ex: Just look at any site by SCE. You'd almost think they *don't* want any viewers and customers.
