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Yeah. This tweet summarizes it nicely:

https://twitter.com/errstr/status/792418938881662976

I wonder why they didn't use the minified version of jquery? Would of been a lot smaller.

Or Zepto. I saw nothing happening that couldn't be done with it.

I really have to wonder why he did it instead of just migrating everything to a strictly static set of pages. no javascript.

the wiki's been locked for quite a while. why not keep it that way. the existing commentary is at least more valuable than the ability to edit it.

provide a static mirror, ward, and I won't have to mirror your "database" of json! ;)

If done correctly, that could be a constant overhead that the browser caches, and you move on.

That's not particularly helpful for people crawling and not keeping state between page hits, but it should make a difference for end users if done right.

The content is gzipped so it actually loads 384kb.