#webapps
#Development #Analyses
The orders of complexity of websites · Why big web features fail small websites https://ilo.im/164nnv
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#Simplicity #Complexity #WebPlatform #WebTechnology #Websites #WebApps #CMS #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb
#AI is the new #Kubernetes is the new #CloudNative is the new #Microservices is the new #WebApps is the new #SOA is the new #Agile is the new #4GL is the new #PersonalComputing is the new …
Sorry when I forgot something or the order is not 100 % perfect. *sigh*
We have @EUCommission [rightfully!] crack down on #cars and their #emissions by demanding ever lower #FleetEmissions and #FuelConsumption numbers but still accept #Bloatware like shitty #WebApps and #Windows11 to demand so much #WastefulComputing that it's painful.
- Margaret Hammond and Grace Hopper must be rotating in their graves, pointing out how they got people on the moon with less storage than the SPD-ROM on a RAM stick and how their programming language still runs #TradFinance like a clockwork respectably, but somehow sending text messages is too much for a machine that costs €499 yet has more computational power than all the machines they worked on combined.
#WastefulComputing like all those phat & enshittified messengers should be illegal.
- Espechally since they have 0 reason to be that resource intensive, even if we believe some of their security-focussed marketing lies.
For those who don't know the size of the problem:
In 2006 I bought a new [entry level] Computer with 256 MB of RAM and a single-core P4 Celeron with 2,8 GHz.
This thing ran #WindowsXP and #NeedForSpeedMostWanted just fine.
Nowadays it would crash trying to open #Slack even on a minimalist #Linux distro like @bunsenlabs in @dillo, a lightweight browser ...
And now imagine that some folks have to use #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, #Telegram, #Signal, #WhatApp, #WeChat, #QQ and #LineMessenger at the same time on their machine, and you can imagine that this will make entry-level desktops already scream harder than if someone were to loop the Lost Coast benchmark on them...
- The #bloat of modern #WebApps is just the socially accepted equivalent to #Cryptojacking desktops and driving some *phat #SuperUselessVehicle just to get less than a kg of groceries at a walking distance supermarket.
Everywhere else we'd not accept such a #bloatware IRL.
- So why should we accept #obscene|ly #WastefulComputing*?
- I had to block some asshole because they refused to acknowledge their shitty bridging destroyed threading and doubled-down on that garbage!
I mean. #Pidgin, #Gajim, #HootSuite and #NUVI don't demand me to setup yet another account to have working multi-protocol support. (Okay, the latter two do but that's to access their interface as they are #SaaS-only #WebApps !)
"TL;DR: Apple’s rules and technical restrictions are blocking other browser vendors from successfully offering their own engines to users in the EU. At the recent Digital Markets Act (DMA) workshop, Apple claimed it didn’t know why no browser vendor has ported their engine to iOS over the past 15 months. But the reality is Apple knows exactly what the barriers are, and has chosen not to remove them.
Safari is the highest margin product Apple has ever made, accounts for 14-16% of Apple’s annual operating profit and brings in $20 billion per year in search engine revenue from Google. For each 1% browser market share that Apple loses for Safari, Apple is set to lose $200 million in revenue per year.
Ensuring other browsers are not able to compete fairly is critical to Apple’s best and easiest revenue stream, and allows Apple to retain full control over the maximum capabilities of web apps, limiting their performance and utility to prevent them from meaningfully competing with native apps distributed through their app store. Consumers and developers (native or web) then suffer due to a lack of competition.
This browser engine ban is unique to Apple and no other gatekeeper imposes such a restriction. Until Apple lifts these barriers they are not in effective compliance with the DMA."
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/
Tyler Sanderson, Kathryn Grayson Nanz, and Brent Stewart present on Frontend Development at Nebraska.Code().
The @w3c Linked Web Storage specification aims to create #WebApps with loosely coupled components like data #storage and #authentication, unlike today's tightly integrated systems.
The "Linked Web Storage Use Cases" document is published as a Draft Note. It presents user stories, use cases, and necessary requirements. 
https://www.w3.org/TR/lws-ucs/
You’re welcome to contribute! https://github.com/w3c/lws-ucs/
File encryption with a browser.
I've been exploring the #WebCryptoAPI and I'm impressed!
When combined with the #FileSystemAPI, it offers a seemingly secure way to #encrypt and #store files directly on your device. Think #localstorage, but with #encryption!
I know #webapps can have #security vulnerabilities since the code is served over the web, so I've #OpenSourced my demo! You can check it out, and it should even work if #selfhosted on #GitHubPages.
Live Demo: https://dim.positive-intentions.com/?path=/story/usefs--encrypted-demo
Demo Code: https://github.com/positive-intentions/dim/blob/staging/src/stories/05-Hooks-useFS.stories.js
Hook Code: https://github.com/positive-intentions/dim/blob/staging/src/hooks/useFS.js
IMPORTANT NOTES (PLEASE READ!):
* This is NOT a product. It's for #testing and #demonstration purposes only.
* It has NOT been reviewed or audited. Do NOT use for sensitive data.
* The "password encryption" currently uses a hardcoded password. This is for demonstration, not security.
* This is NOT meant to replace robust solutions like #VeraCrypt. It's just a #proofofconcept to show what's possible with #browser #APIs.
@patrickcmiller which is yet another reason why I explicitly recommend to not trust #Browsers & #WebApps but use either proper clients (i.e. @monocles / #monoclesMail & @thunderbird ) or do the #airgapped #OfflinePGP method!
How to Detect Memory Leaks in Your Web App, by (not found on Mastodon or Bluesky):
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Things one tends to forget: network bandwidth and stability is not taken to be granted. And this can really mess up the software one is developing.
Planned a feature today where we need to show a couple of pictures. Up till now we only needed them somewhere in the backend and did not want to be too much hassle to the user. So we decided to limit one picture to 5 MB. As we can delete them after a certain time, we were not worried about storage.
Now... (1/2)
I'm developing a demo app to be called #Winsome to show how to use my #dweb #RESTful APIs for the decentralised #Autonomi network.
I struggle with raw HTML, CSS & JS and am much happier with Svelte but this is going to be an app in a single HTML file so it's taken a while but the hard part is done!
Thinking about next steps has clarified what else I need in the #REST API and how to provide a neat security model for p2p web apps!
I do love code!
Deploy Angular and Next.js Apps With App Hosting, Now GA, by @firebase.com:
https://firebase.blog/posts/2025/04/apphosting-general-availability
@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii obviously, that would've been a good standard for everyone, given that almost all non-#Gaming #Apps these days are #WebApps and at that point we'd not have 100+ MB #bloatware that essentially just loads a #Website and can't even cache shit!
- /me stares angrily at #Cordova
Personally I believe the @europarl_en & @EUCommission could do that and establish as well as enforce an #EC #norm, just as they did with #USBc, #CCS2 and #GDPR!
- It's just lack of political #pressure and #will to actually deal with the #AntiCompetitive-ness of #GAFAMs and given #Microsoft got forced into the #BrowserChoice setup in #WindowsXP & #Windows7, I demand the same for #iOS, #macOS and #Windows11 to include not only #Firefox & #Chrome but also #TorBrowser!
#Android needs to be better as in being more than just the "lesser evil" compared to iOS!
Compare your #webapps and see how much memory and CPU they are using.
Oh wonder #SPAs are more prone to memory eating, by nature, there is more dynamic page content, more #JS. Already the base memory footprint is double that one of an MPA.
Just check out the your browser's task manager. #devtools
And in doubt #usetheplatform, or in other words: HTML and CSS are powerful tools and solve more problems than some may think. Try to think simple(r).