So true. I can understand that some sites cannot possibly provide any useful functionality without JS (e.g. Trello), but am extremely annoyed when I find simple news sites loading a ton of assets from various CDNs - in many cases, I cannot even read the article if I am forced to use an older browser like IE8 or a slow internet connection.
Yes, exactly. Funny thing is, with a terrible connection like the one I currently have, gmail is the sort of app I don't expect to work at all.. except that it does because it has a very powerful html-only (a la 1998-webmail) interface.
In the mean time, a bunch of blogs and wordpress-type sites will not load without their bazillion javascript files. Half of them from tracking sites, the other half from social sites (sigh).
A few more years down the line, this is how the "web 2.0" will be remembered: 3 different JS frameworks on the same site, a bazillion share buttons and simply generally more javascript being served than cheeseburgers in a macdonalds.
