• Re: Why are the web pages so large? foul play?

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets,alt.comp.software.firefox,alt.comp.freeware,alt.conspiracy on Sun Jul 12 12:50:28 2026
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    On 7/12/2026 6:38 AM, JJ wrote:
    On 10 Jul 2026 19:10:58 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:
    I asked:

    Why are these pages always full of CSS and JS which is much
    bigger than the actual HTML content when the CSS and JS could
    be externalized into separate resources?

    One word: enshitification


    NO, it's just easier to foul-play with
    bigger bxoes. :)

    By "foul play", I included dark magic &
    witchcraft! :)

    The bigger the box, the bigger the surprise!
    It's just a very ancient trick. :)


    Jack-in-the-box - Wikipedia
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack-in-the-box>

    FOUL PLAYE+!uuc(t|Uo2o)t++*!>N+Uoeiu-i*-Roa+ <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/zht/%E8%A9%9E%E5%85%B8/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E-%E6%BC%A2%E8%AA%9E-%E7%B9%81%E9%AB%94/foul-play>
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