For RSS/Atom feeds presented as links in a site (for convenience to users), developers can always offer a simple preview for the feed output using: https://feedreader.xyz/
Good luck downloading a firmware upgrade for these. Oracle requires a subscription nowadays, even if there are security related issues that the firmware resolves. And mind you, it's not a $29 subscription.
Once ad agencies/networks take note of this feature, they will 100% start using it and abusing it.
We're already seeing some ad networks using initialization scripts to bootstrap their ad setup, with dynamically constructed secondary scripts that have a high fetchpriority (so they supposedly load faster than others).
For reference, modern news/media sites may load multiple ad networks (3-4 on average perhaps) in order to optimize ad performance (revenue) or inject different kinds of ads or sponsored content. If we take Google's Ad Manager (or similar) as the base network to serve ads (own or third-party), many times we see additional networks like AdSense, Taboola, Outbrain, Vidverto (to name a few) or other local ad networks that do some sort of header bidding, ad injection, sponsored content display, in-read ads/videos and so on.
I don't see why some won't abuse this spec to force-inject their stuff earlier than other ad networks and of course at the expense of a site's performance...
I hope you don't live in the US buddy... If you don't, you're probably fine. If you do and Netlify decides to go after you, it's probably gonna be tough and costly.
Which is crucial Netlify is called out for this. Hiding behind the "fine print" is pathetic, not a way to do business.
As someone who's worked primarily on news/media sites for the last 15 years, I can totally relate and agree on all your points.
I would also argue that there are non-code issues that could easily be resolved. Bundling fonts for example. Decide on the top 100 with support for all or almost all characters, based on usage etc., and bundle them in the browser. That would shave possibly hundreds of KBs of each page's size.
On the flip side, stuff like lazy loading could become standard and use the attribute only to force-load content. Or stuff that is used on every freaking site (eg togglers as native html tags).
Seriously, if any VC is reading this, get this man some funding to make it a real project. Even at double or triple what it costs, it's still cheaper than any other commercial competitor.
If it gets really popular here on hacker news won't be long before chinese devices based on it start appearing. Or if someone is willing to invest $10-20k they could have devices ready to sell in less than 2-3 weeks.
This. So much this. It's also really cool as a 'niche' project, and felt even approachable to someone like me who hasn't ever done more soldering than his first PS1 and a modchip.
Thank you for building and sharing this.
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