[Lazarus] Web vs desktop development

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2016-01-16 12:56, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
> But todays web pages use scripting more and more (which I mostly block
> with NoScript). In this case I would download and run code with each and
> every click. In terms of security this is a nightmare!


+1

The other day I disabled Javascript in my web browser for a day or two
to see how much of websites are still usable. I noticed two things:

 1. Most websites are unusable without Javascript (so why do web
    browsers still bother with giving the option to disable it).

 2. The websites loaded magnitudes faster - it was as if I was back in
    1994! :) This was because they couldn't inject more JS scripts from
    external domains (eg: ads, remote JS & CSS servers etc). So only
    a single HTML page was downloaded and whatever local images was
    referenced - anything that required JS to load simply didn't happen.


Even though I have quite a fast Internet connection, I really like what
I noticed in (2) above.

Regards,
  - Graeme -

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