Ah, it might make the web faster *on mobile*. Not very interesting.

joezydeco · on Sept 2, 2014

Mobile is getting worse, IMO.

Maybe it's because I have an older iOS device running 6.1, but the insane size of some of these sites combined with all the side-loaded javascript and CSS rendering (and re-rendering) is just making sites completely unusable.

How come I can load Metafilter in 3 seconds, but Wired takes over a minute, if it works at all? And Medium? Even worse.

Pxtl · on Sept 2, 2014

OMG this. It's insanely frustrating that 90% of the time we're just reading text and it's so painful on older mobile devices that still should run circles around computers that happily consumed internet content ~10 years ago.

nfoz · on Sept 2, 2014

The web used to provide text, and allow the user-agent to render it as appropriate for that display/user.

Now the web is a (bad) application platform, where the content designers demand full control of interactivity.

As a user you are not well-served by the modern web. It's not the devices per se it's also the content that is different than ~10 years ago.

jpatte · on Sept 2, 2014

As the border between mobile/portable devices and dektops/workstations keeps getting blurrier, this "on mobile" concept will probably just lose any sense in the near future.

tomelders · on Sept 2, 2014

Probably not. In my experience I've found that images are usually higher res (and bigger file sizes) that on mobile devices.