@Nine @ifixcoinops to be fair 20mb is still more than enough for a site as long as you have no (large) media in it
webp can crunch down images to mind boggling sizes much better than JPEG could, you can have a shared CSS file for the whole website, and you can fit quite a lot of HTML and text in that space
@Nine @ifixcoinops my website's homepage is 175kb, of which like 10-20kb is the text/code, 30kb fonts, 80kb stylistic images (banner + background) and the rest is mostly 88x31 buttons at the bottom of the page
@Nine @ifixcoinops that's with basic size optimizations, I could do better but I didn't see a point in trying.
And then there's some very specific pages where I have unreasonably huge images and perhaps I should have thumbnails for them because 8MB per image is kinda unreasonable.
Basically I listened to the people screaming about how JavaScript is the root of all evil and have some very… creative CSS hacks for basic features (and ended up adding a sprinkle of JS anyway because turns out my CSS hacks fucked with accessibility in annoying ways. It's still technically usable without JS but with a few UX papercuts like the image viewer accidentally blocking you from downloading an image when it's zoomed in. And the tab-order being weird and nonsensical in some cases.). Which means adding thumbnails in a reasonable way would be pretty hard actually!
I'm wary of using WebP. Apparently Dolby and some other companies are doing patent lawsuits over it. Could be another GIF patent fiasco.
@argv_minus_one @Nine @ifixcoinops huh, Google released it under BSD-3-clause with an additional patent use license grant for any relevant patents they own so that's surprising
The lawsuits are about patents Google does *not* own.
It's not like copyright, where the thing belongs to whoever made it. Patents allow somebody you've never heard of to come out of the woodwork and claim ownership of your whole idea.
@argv_minus_one @Nine @ifixcoinops :haggard:
we need to abolish patents, they don't ever help the actual creators of shit nowadays (even when they do, it's not worth it in their current form)