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I guess we should have warned everyone :)

There's quite a bit of good advice in the presentation.

One thing that I didn't see mentioned though is the difference between load-once and reload-on-every-page. Many of the worst JS abuses are from people loading 500k of JS every time the user clicks on anything. Apps such as Gmail or Google Reader only load the JS once then update bits of the page or an iframe as the user clicks around. That has some downsides of course, but it's the only good way to do something that's really JS-heavy.



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