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                      “… and water is wet! Film at 11!”

Time for more yelling at the clouds.

A few days ago I was surfing on my iPad when I came across An Astronomy Club
of Brevard, NC [1]. Now, my iPad is a bit, shall we say, slightly out of
date? So it was with sadness when I saw:

> Your Browser Is
>  No Longer Supported
>
> To view this website and enjoy a better online experience,
>  update your browser for free.
>

Followed by a list of browsers.

You know, I thought we left that behind in the early 2000s, but apparently
not.

I then viewed the site on my desktop computer and … why? Why do I need a less
than-20-minute old browser to view seven images and some text? Why does it
take 193 requests to even show the page? At a minimum, you have the HTML
(HyperText Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and seven images,
so … nine requests? Okay, maybe some Javascript to do the animations
designers are so fond of.

But 193 files?

I'm not blaming the Astronomy Club of Brevard for this. They're using Wix [2]
to create and host the website, so I'm laying the blame solely at Wix here
for going completely overboard with the JavaScript. Do web developers know
you can create a perfectly good site with just HTML and CSS?

Yeah, I'm yelling at the tide to stop coming in.

Sigh.

[1] https://www.astrobrevard.org/
[2] https://www.wix.com/

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