{"id":12046,"date":"2015-07-22T17:59:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T00:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=12046"},"modified":"2015-07-22T17:59:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T00:59:25","slug":"mobile-web-and-glass-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2015\/07\/22\/mobile-web-and-glass-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Web and Glass Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nilay Patel\u00a0is wrong on the\u00a0“The mobile web sucks”\u00a0article he posted on the Verge.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at the article itself.<\/p>\n

In portrait mode, the site logo is on the top of the screen followed by a large ad. The title of the article is in the bottom half\u00a0of the screen.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

In Landscape mode without the navigation bar, only part of the article title showed up on the screen.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Let’s see how it looks with mobile Safari navigation bar. The title of the article doesn’t even show up on the screen.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The fact is that The Verge is one bloated site, littered with ads and analytics. I generally avoid The Verge like a plague because of that.<\/p>\n

Patel adds:<\/p>\n

Now, I happen to work at a media company, and I happen to run a website that can be bloated and slow. Some of this is our fault: The Verge is ultra-complicated, we have huge images, and we serve ads from our own direct sales and a variety of programmatic networks. Our video player is annoying. (I swear a better one is coming, for real this time.) We could do a lot of things to make our site load faster, and we’re doing them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Patel knows what the actual source of the problem, but he is trying to shift the blame to the web-browsers.\u00a0If the square peg doesn’t fit the round hole, you should stop giving the peg paint jobs.<\/p>\n

I unapologetically use ad-blocker and host-file to make my web-browsing experience better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nilay Patel\u00a0is wrong on the\u00a0“The mobile web sucks”\u00a0article he posted on the Verge. Let’s take a look at the article itself. In portrait mode, the site logo is on the top of the screen followed by a large ad. The title of the article is in the bottom half\u00a0of the screen. In Landscape mode without … <\/p>\n

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