Forum Archive Index - September 2000

[Marilyn Munroe <who.c@res.co.nz>]

I know that this posting is off topic but I hope that it will be of interest
to share chatters.

My grump is about needlessly overcomplicated web pages, in particular pages which use large amounts of Java code. These pages are usually large file sizes and more concerned with style over content.

Some sites can take over 15 minutes for my browser to resolve. What happens is that it chokes up my RAM forcing the use of virtual memory on my hard drive. The memory then spends all its time writing continuously to hard drive trying to clear the space it needs to try to resolve this page.

I thought for a start that it might be a lack of capacity on my not quite up to the minute computer. (cyrix 166, 32 Meg Ram, 33k modem, Netscape 4.6 browser) I then tried it on the same sites with my brothers computer which is very powerful. (AMD Athlon 750 Mhz, 128 Meg Ram, 56k modem, Netscape 4.6 browser) It choked on these web pages as well.

As a solution to this problem I have turned of Java on my browser. This meant that some of the offending web pages would resolve O K but created problems with other pages. Other pages would not load as the site demanded Java, or links within the pages were Java links and would not work with java disabled.

Result frustration.

On the other hand there is a site which downloads quickly, resolves quickly, and where content is not prisoner to style. I refer to the Sharechat web pages.

I looked at the source code for the Sharechat pages and found references to DTD (document type definitions) and CSS (cascading style sheets), so the programing language used to create these pages is not simple.

My question is how can Sharechat get it right, and others make such a pigs breakfast of their web pages?

Is it a solution to appoint the Sharechat code cutters web policemen, with powers to overwrite web pages on servers which full of bad code?

Anyway Sharechat code cutters take a bow, you have got it right when many others have failed.

Any comments or advice appreciated
 

Boop-boop-de-do Marilyn

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