On: Why the Facebook iOS Application is so large

[mynameisvlad]

Barely does 1 and 2 since 3 causes browsers to actually slow down to a crawl. The second that 18k list started to load, my browser turned ridiculously slow.

[jafitc → mynameisvlad]

I agree that the inline HTML code block is not optimized for such a use-case. You can read the content here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066530

Still my point was about the content being simply a list, which it is not (for better or worse in this case, I know :-)

[toyg → mynameisvlad]

> causes browsers to actually slow down to a crawl.

some browsers. FF 40.0 on my 2012 rMBP barely breaks a sweat.

[pllbnk → mynameisvlad]

I opened it with FF on my phone - no problem loading or scrolling it whatsoever.

[lewiseason → mynameisvlad]

Fine on Chrome 44 running on a fairly ancient Core 2 Duo