Filed under: Design, Developer, Internet, Blogging
Is JavaScript slowing down the web?
Read/WriteWeb has a great article up that claims that JavaScript and - more to the point: all of the widgets that JavaScript powers - are ruining the web by slowing down websites to a crawl. The surprising information here is that JavaScript is a single-threaded language, meaning that in most cases nothing can happen on a website while a given piece of JavaScript code is being run. While this isn't a big deal for small or fast code, anything that your site is loading from a 3rd party that isn't optimized could be drastically slowing your site down. Some tips are included with respect to how to optimize your pages to be minimally impacted by potentially slow JavaScript, however there is no easy solution. Maybe simply using moderation when determining which widgets to add to your site is the best advice.
