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date    = "2024-03-05T20:43:42+00:00"
lastmod = "2024-03-05T20:43:42+00:00"
tags    = [ "webdev" ]
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It's amazing how trends in modern mainstream web development have seemingly
inverted. One such example (an old bookmark) while following tech more closely
in school;

> Therefore by purposefully giving the user a blank page, we are giving him
> information that the app is still loading. The user knows that the app will be
> functional when he sees boxes and buttons.

--- 2013, [JavaScript top or bottom?](https://web.archive.org/web/20140107051406/https://demianlabs.com/lab/post/top-or-bottom-of-the-page-where-should-you-load-your-javascript/#:~:text=Therefore%20by)

The truth was it didn't matter, at least, not so much as "position independent
code", kind of. Tech appears to do a ten year amnesiac/discovery routine.
[Web components](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Components)
arrived around that time too.