• smileyhead
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    1 year ago

    Since we have CSS what would be the purpose of the server knowing the aspect ratio?

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      1 year ago

      Ideally, to save bandwidth on both sides, the server would only want to serve you the JS and CSS you need. I’m not sure how frequently that optimization is made, however.

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        1 year ago

        I’m a bit rusty on this, but I think you’d need to split your Sass/SCSS/etc before Webpack will perform tree-shaking or allow lazy-loading. I don’t think many devs wrote it that way: personally, I like my mobile rules beside my desktop ones, since my styling is component-wise.

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      1 year ago

      Fair point, there could be reasons, and I’d say there’s no privacy concerns if that’s all they get, but I know it’s part of fingerprinting. I said 99% so they don’t even need to know that