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but it was trash at loading html websites
as opposed to websites written in excel 2003 format or what
Bro's from the timeline where Flash became the dominant species.
It was full of ActiveX controls and Silverlight.
shudders
there are many more type of websites, other than html
Can you give an example?
PHP: Facebook, Dream Market, Silk Road(darkweb)
Ruby on Rails: Github, Airbnb
Django: Bitbucket
These technologies can compile into websites in themselves, but they are usually used as backend
Except that all of those produce HTML. They are all HTML websites.
PHP stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor" because it is a Preprocessor of HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
If we are talking about browser performance, none of those technologies that you mentioned execute on the browser at all and are therefore irrelevant to Firefox's performance compared to another browser.
From a browser's perspective, every website is HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
none of those technologies that you mentioned execute on the browser at all
sounds like you haven't met webassembly yet :D
- https://github.com/seanmorris/php-wasm
- https://github.com/ruby/ruby.wasm
- https://github.com/m-butterfield/django_webassembly
please don't take this as a recommendation to use that, but it does exist.
Tell me in your own words what you think hypertext is.