I'm talking about bad connections, not necessarily mobile. This applies especially to situations that companies like G-Advetures face. In South America they have to deal with perfectly fine desktops, but very high latency internet connections. Submitting a form can take 20 minutes or more.
A text only version like the one described would be far worse than a JS heavy one. JS free forms are naturally synchronous. So each edit would kill the ui for a full refresh cycle.
On the other hand a SPA type page can send data in the background white you're doing other work in the app.
Sure there are crappy mobile friendly sites, but that doesn't invalidate the idea.
On a side note I'm not really sold on the whole CDN idea, it just looks like another HTTP request and another point of failure. Concatenate / uglify seems like the better solution.
A text only version like the one described would be far worse than a JS heavy one. JS free forms are naturally synchronous. So each edit would kill the ui for a full refresh cycle.
On the other hand a SPA type page can send data in the background white you're doing other work in the app.
Sure there are crappy mobile friendly sites, but that doesn't invalidate the idea.
On a side note I'm not really sold on the whole CDN idea, it just looks like another HTTP request and another point of failure. Concatenate / uglify seems like the better solution.