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"The median page weight for a desktop page, as measured in October 2024 is 2,652 KB", we could fit two releases there!

almanac.httparchive.org/en/202

Amazing yearly report on the state of the by the HTTP Archive, check it out:

almanac.httparchive.org/en/202

@dillo

Reminds me of this classic:

wired.com/2016/04/average-webp

where the 2.4MB average page-weight was comparable to the size of the installer for the shareware version of Doom. 😂

WIRED · The Average Webpage Is Now the Size of the Original DoomBy Klint Finley

@gumnos "The web is Doomed" indeed 😂

I noticed (see in my nickname) that arabian despite right-to-left works in DIllo but non Chinese Han or Mongolian despite the fact they are left-to-right here (mongolian should be top to bottom, but I think it will supported in 50 or 100 years by everyone only).

Also about SVG, this one made by hand, that re-use éléments with refs isn't well displayed, it was in Firefox in 2021 when I published the blog post and was still 1 or 2 years later, but it's no more the case today (whole black instead of correct colored with text): it works with geeqie and other desktop applications, nos javascript inside. I should maybe add some bug reports somewhere for these problems?
hey, it's well displayed via snac in this SNAC instance post, but not as an SVG displayed alone??? I don't understand why?

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@Popolon RTL and CJK fonts are known to not work. Hopefully the support will improve with FLTK 1.4 which uses Pango.

Regarding SVG, yeah also a known limitation. We included builtin nanosvg, which only supports a small subset of SVG (the basic to render Wikipedia math). You can convert it to a basic SVG as a workaround (probably with Inkscape).

In the future we probably will add support for complete SVG with an optional external library.

@dillo 2 and a half megabytes for the average website is absolute insanity, and most of the time it's minified too

honestly the modern web scares me

@dillo that's like one and a quarter pokemons crystal damn

@dillo i wonder what those little dips are around 2017-18
@dillo Different from computing power, network speed actually didn't grow much for a lot of people.

@dillo A sobering report. Wish they'd recommend fewer, smaller images and a lot less JS instead of "tree shaking". WTF, that's the web developer equivalent of New Age crap.