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I knew of most of these front-end development tools (like Utopia, obviously), but some were new to me.
Scott is brilliant, therefore by the transitive property, his course on web performance must also be brilliant.
I knew of most of these front-end development tools (like Utopia, obviously), but some were new to me.
Chris Ferdinandi blogs every day about the power of vanilla JavaScript. For over a week now, his daily posts have been about service workers. The cumulative result is this excellent collection of resources.
Remy has an excellent improvement on that article I linked to yesterday on using srcdoc
with iframes. Rather than using srcdoc
instead of src
, you can use srcdoc
as well as src
. That way you can support older browsers too!
This is a clever use of the srcdoc
attribute on iframes.
Following on from that proposal for a browser feature that I linked to yesterday, Tim thinks through all the permutations and possibilities of user agents allowing users to throttle resources:
If a limit does get enforced (it’s important to remember this is still a big if right now), as long as it’s handled with care I can see it being an excellent thing for the web that prioritizes users, while still giving developers the ability to take control of the situation themselves.
Embedding YouTube videos without sacrificing performance.
Measuring performance is important. Communicating the story of performance is equally important.