SickOfSlowSites

> Chrome is so popular because it has been the best browser for years. Whether that's still true is open for debate. But I remember when it came out, finally an answer to the godawful shite that was IE. We may dislike it now, but it saved us from Microsoft's disaster.

That wasn't Chrome at all. It was Firefox. Where is this history re-write coming from. Firefox lost market-share when they went to Australis and became followers of Chrome instead of leaders (helped in part no doubt by funding from Google).

> forced to use these days due to a lack of alternatives.

The alternatives were barebones HTML, CSS, and javascript.

They were forced, in 2013, by Google who used their monopoly search position to enforce 'responsive' design (i.e. frameworks) otherwise your page got delisted. This company is ripe for anti-trust.

> The ability to source some js and then add a <custom-element> wherever you want just like it was a built in element is one of the best things to ever happen to web design.

STOP MAKING YOUR PAGES SO SLOW!!

> devs want these new features

Devs wanted Flash and real-player plugins pack in the day too. They wanted ActiveX plugins too. No-one else wanted them and it was ultimately the downfall of IE.

> Microsoft sort of gave up and killed their browser engine This will be the downfall of chrome. Google will ultimately be fined under anti-trust, chrome funding will dry up and browsers will stop supporting these absurd features. Have a nice time rewriting all your webcomponents in javascript in 5 years.

> EDIT: Also the non-JS web is basically dead. People should to come and accept that even if it's not perfect.

No. I won't accept it. The JS web sucks. It's slow, bloated, provides nothing of value to me the user, and exists only to feed the maw of advertisers and platform providers who will never be satisfied with the tech we have.

HTML pages are still faster to use and 1000x easier to deploy than all this "modern" web crap that delivers less and less for more and more. Look at the site you are on!

I've never heard about this Webcomponents thing before today. I hate it already. No I'm not willing to give it a chance. I am certain, certain that it will deliver nothing but pages with 100K of actual content which need 10MB code downloads and 20s rendering times on an i5.

Web designers, developers, and especially browser developers are destroying the world wide web and replacing it with a glorified series of custom-flash apps. It's every bit as terrible as when flash was around no matter how much spin is put on these "standards". Google is the new Adobe and your website is awful again.