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Developer: Dump JavaScript for faster Web loading

March 23, 2015

Via: itCurated

Web pages would be loaded quicker sans JavaScript via a proposal being floated by the editor of a fashion magazine, possibly as part of a still-theoretical “HTML6.”

A W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) mailing list post entitled “HTML6 proposal for single-page Web apps without JavaScript” details the proposal, dated March 20. “The overall purpose [of the plan] is to reduce response times when loading Web pages,” said Web developer Bobby Mozumder, editor in chief of FutureClaw magazine, in an email. “This is the difference between a 300ms page load vs 10ms. The faster you are, the better people are going to feel about using your Website.”

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