minifying the website

[w0rp]

On Friday, 31 May 2013 at 17:43:09 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
> I may be in the minority in this, but I would prefer if some of 
> that were just removed entirely.
>
> In particular, the code-running doohickey that doesn't even 
> work needs to die for the pathological behaviour it gives on 
> Firefox.  For example 
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html hung my browser for 
> almost twenty seconds with a blank coloured background.  This 
> is on an i5 at work and my i7 at home, with or without 
> extensions.  I can't even imagine how my old laptop would cope.
>  To add insult to injury, it displayed the page without the JS 
> for almost a second before disappearing.
>
> I'm fine with some light JS that makes the documentation more 
> usable or useful; this makes it practically unusable unless I 
> have access to NoScript.

I actually second this. I block those scripts because they slow 
the pages down massively, and often break. I'm using Firefox on 
Windows with a beefy i7.