{"id":220,"date":"2008-08-28T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T18:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=220"},"modified":"2008-09-04T17:43:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T01:43:14","slug":"make-msdn-load-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2008\/08\/make-msdn-load-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Make MSDN Website Load Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msdn.com\/\">MSDN website<\/a> sucks.  It loads extremely slowly, and is visually cluttered.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that MSDN has a low-bandwidth (&#8220;loband&#8221;) option.  This will cause MSDN to render using much simpler HTML, which loads much more quickly and has a very clean appearance.  To use this feature, tack &#8220;<tt>(loband)<\/tt>&#8221; at the end of the URL, before the <tt>.aspx<\/tt> suffix.<\/p>\n<p>For example, here are the MSDN pages for <tt>SendMessage<\/tt>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li \/><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms644950.aspx\">Regular<\/a>\n<li \/><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms644950(loband).aspx\">Low-bandwidth version<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that you can make this the default rendering method by clicking on &#8220;Persist low bandwidth view&#8221; at the top of the page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/msdn_persistlowbandwidthview-300x132.png\" alt=\"Persist Low-Bandwidth View\" title=\"MSDN:  Persist Low-Bandwidth View\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/msdn_persistlowbandwidthview-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/msdn_persistlowbandwidthview.png 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluralsight.com\/community\/blogs\/craig\/archive\/2008\/06\/26\/51219.aspx\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MSDN website sucks. It loads extremely slowly, and is visually cluttered. It turns out that MSDN has a low-bandwidth (&#8220;loband&#8221;) option. This will cause MSDN to render using much simpler HTML, which loads much more quickly and has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2008\/08\/make-msdn-load-faster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[177,178,179,176,20],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-c","tag-loband","tag-low-bandwidth","tag-msdn","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}