I have an iPad that's maybe a decade old at this point. I'm using it for the exact same things I was a decade ago, except that I can barely use the web browser. I don't know if it's the browser or the pages or both, but most web sites are unbearably slow, and some simply don't work, javascript hangs and some elements simply never load. The device is too old to get OS updates, which means I can't update some of the apps. But, that's a good thing because those old apps are still very responsive. The apps I can update are getting slower and slower all the time.

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the pages. It's all the JavaScript. And especially the HTML5 stuff. The amount of code that is executed in a webpage these days is staggering. And JS isn't exactly a computationally modest language.

Of the 200kB loaded on a typical Wikipedia page, about 85kb of it is JS and CSS.

Another 45kB for a single SVG, which in complex cases is a computationally nontrivial image format.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't agree. It's both. I've opened basic no JS sites on old tablets to test them out and even those pages BARELY load

[–] jtzl@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What caused the latency in that case?

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Probably just the browser itself, considering how bloated they're getting. It's not super surprising, considering the apps run about as fast (on a good day) as it did 5-10 years ago on a new phone, it's gonna run like dogshit on a phone from that era.