There was a time...
... when web browsers seemed relatively lightweight. I think that must have been back in the days when most websites used little or no Javascript. These days it's not that unusual to see Firefox using 90% of one CPU and a great big slice of RAM on a relatively powerful desktop machine.
But never fear, I hear you say, Moore's Law to the rescue. The 18-monthly doublin in transistor counts will ensure that memory keeps growing and CPUs get faster, in aggregate.
Well, you may have reckoned without the skills of the designers and implementors of HTML 5, which it seems will now require web browsers to implement an SQL database.
But never fear, I hear you say, Moore's Law to the rescue. The 18-monthly doublin in transistor counts will ensure that memory keeps growing and CPUs get faster, in aggregate.
Well, you may have reckoned without the skills of the designers and implementors of HTML 5, which it seems will now require web browsers to implement an SQL database.