In his session this afternoon, Bruce Fleming pointed out, among other things, that for ultramobile devices, more efficient web page rendering leads to lower load times. And lower is better.

As a web developer, dramatic bandwidth improvements and much higher computing power obviated the load-time concern five or six years ago. Back in the day, however, it was a web designer’s job to minimize load times–interesting that today it has become the job, in part, of a chip manufacturer.