... I would it too, of course. But in order to make it work we have to dial back the complexity of our pages and our want for high definition videos. ...
Yes. Yes. Yes. The HTTP Archive says that the average web page today makes out-references to 16 different domains as well as making 17 Javascript requests per page, and the Javascript byte count is several times the HTML byte count.[HT] A lot of that Javascript is, as you well know, about analytics which is to say surveillance of the user "experience." I wish I could get it across to those who like free as in paid for by advertising and the video junkies that it is their demand for, and their willingnesss to accept, remote procedure calls from arbitrary servers (RPCs written in Turing complete languages I might add) that will have the effects that we here can so well anticipate. Mozilla's announcement that it will bend to demand and build in DRM is indicative. In short, can this baby be saved? I really don't know. --dan [HT] Trends, HTTP Archive; www.httparchive.org/trends.php