so i'm finishing up my latest example of a working light-markup system, and it's running under 45k at the moment.
i thought i'd include "embedding" in it; you know, the typical stuff from youtube, and twitter, vimeo, vine, instagram, etc. my word. embedding from these big companies involves some extremely bloated code, ranging anywhere from 150k up to 950k for every single one of 'em. i kid you not. excuse me? after i've worked so hard to cut my code to the bone to make it as small as i can? i even did the grunt work of converting to vanilla javascript, so i could drop jquery. and guess what? an instagram embed downloads jquery! it's version 1.7.2, so it "only" weighs 95k, but by itself it's twice the size of my code. (an instagram embed is 750k, which does _not_ include the featured media itself.) worst is the fact that some of this bloat is for tracking users, and my preference is to not even include such invasive code for my own useful purposes, let alone the probably-evil aims of these corporations. and, on top of all that, their complex code sometimes screws up the understanding and execution of my _simple_ code. argh! so if i do end up offering such embedding, it'll be with a big dose of warning to users. -bowerbird _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss