Bearfruit

Javascript is cool and things we only dreamed of 8 years ago are now common. However, the trends are leaning towards writing tremendous amounts of application code for web sites and web applications that run client-side in the web-browser. Sites are using more and more animation and effects. Now people are contemplating how to do cpu intensive computations in web browsers.

There is nothing bad about this, but something that needs to be pointed out is that a wide range of devices will be accessing your website. Do you test on older, slower systems? Do you test on laptops and mobile devices? I can’t tell you how often I visit websites these days and hear the fan on my laptop kick in. (It just happened now, as I write this… someone just started a chat with me in gmail)

I’ll be honest, I don’t test as well as I should, but I do tend to notice when sites are cpu intensive because my laptop’s battery suffers greatly. I just don’t hear people talking about this topic, which concerns me a little bit.