What's with the Extremetech mobile site for iPad? There's nothing but black and a slow moving "ring of death" for like 30 seconds. Then I can see the page, but nothing responds for forever. Then after about a minute, the page is all there but then has to refresh again. What is this? Completely incompetent. Does anyone even test this? I'm on wired connection over 802.11n. There's no excuse for this dial up modem like performance!
That would be onswipe [http://onswipe.com/]. They offer a plugin/integration that makes your site "mobile ready" and optimized, meanwhile displaying ads and getting revenue from that.
Except they don't. They just overrule scrolling and cut off content and bombard you with ads. There is a lengthly bashing of them here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699610.
"OnSwipe has become a perfect tool for preventing me from viewing content I'd otherwise happily read."
On mobile sites, I'm glad for the Stop button. Once I can see what I want to see, if the page is still trying to load something I just hit stop and in many cases, the content displays just fine without their layover ads or extra JS bullcrap.
