> We simply do not have the technology yet to handle text and images in a consistent way!
We actually have plenty of algorithms for laying out text and images very quickly. You can see this when scrolling complex PDFs or sizable books on e.g. Apple devices. Even a complex web page can be very responsive if it makes smart use of JS and async calls, etc.
Perhaps what you mean is that the complexity of current web apps running on browsers that handle arbitrary layout, computation (JS, WebAssembly), async calls (e.g. analytics), etc can be laggy on certain mobile devices? If so, yes. There are many possible culprits so to speak that lead to low frame rates.
I would phrase it this way: the combination of advertising interests, compute power, and economics have led us to a place where lots of people face laggy interfaces.
Overall, this isn’t a “technological” problem: think of technology as a set of constraints. People and their desires lead to various “design” decisions (some more evolved than designed).
See also Wirth’s Law. I don’t think it is particularly insightful, however. These kinds of laws feel more like the ironic complaints of an ennui fueled graybeard than attempts to make proactive change. From Wikipedia:
> Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.
> The adage is named after Niklaus Wirth, a computer scientist who discussed it in his 1995 article "A Plea for Lean Software".
Note that some malicious and misguided right wingers are attacking and trying to subvert Wikipedia.
We actually have plenty of algorithms for laying out text and images very quickly. You can see this when scrolling complex PDFs or sizable books on e.g. Apple devices. Even a complex web page can be very responsive if it makes smart use of JS and async calls, etc.
Perhaps what you mean is that the complexity of current web apps running on browsers that handle arbitrary layout, computation (JS, WebAssembly), async calls (e.g. analytics), etc can be laggy on certain mobile devices? If so, yes. There are many possible culprits so to speak that lead to low frame rates.
I would phrase it this way: the combination of advertising interests, compute power, and economics have led us to a place where lots of people face laggy interfaces.
Overall, this isn’t a “technological” problem: think of technology as a set of constraints. People and their desires lead to various “design” decisions (some more evolved than designed).
See also Wirth’s Law. I don’t think it is particularly insightful, however. These kinds of laws feel more like the ironic complaints of an ennui fueled graybeard than attempts to make proactive change. From Wikipedia:
> Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.
> The adage is named after Niklaus Wirth, a computer scientist who discussed it in his 1995 article "A Plea for Lean Software".
Note that some malicious and misguided right wingers are attacking and trying to subvert Wikipedia.