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Tag: SLOW JAVASCRIPT

Is JavaScript slowing down the web?

Read/WriteWeb has a great article up that claims that JavaScript and - more to the point: all of the widgets that JavaScript powers - are ruining the web by slowing down websites to a crawl. The surprising information here is that JavaScript is a single-threaded language, meaning that in most cases nothing can happen on a website while a given piece of JavaScript code is being run. While this ...