Today’s websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website’s traffic. Many of them, however, are never shown to a user because they’re placed way below the fold…
👋 Hey folks! This is the first edition of a new weekly update we’ll be posting that covers timely news at the intersection of development standards and the tools that make them available on the web. We often talk about…
PWA (Progressive Web Apps) have been with us for some time now. Yet, each time I try explaining it to clients, the same question pops up: “Will my users be able to install the app using app stores?” The answer …
In December 2018, Microsoft announced that Edge would adopt Chromium, the open source project that powers Google Chrome. Many within the industry reacted with sadness at the loss of browser diversity. Personally, I was jubilant. An official release date …
The Chrome team announced a new feature called Lite Pages that can be activated by flipping on the Data Saver option on an Android device:
…Chrome on Android’s Data Saver feature helps by automatically optimizing web pages to make them
As a web UI developer and designer, there are countless things to learn and only so many hours in the day. There are topics I’ve purposefully avoided, like mobile and offline application development because, at some point, you have to …
This is a possible upcoming feature for mobile Chrome:
…If a Data Saver user is on a 2G-speed or slower network according to the NetInfo API, Chrome disables scripts and sends an intervention header on every resource request. Users are
Early in my career when I worked at agencies and later at Microsoft on Edge, I heard the same lament over and over: “Argh, why doesn’t Edge just run on Blink? Then I would have access to ALL THE APIs …
A new Chrome feature dubbed “Blink LazyLoad” is designed to dramatically improve performance by deferring the load of below-the-fold images and third-party <iframe></iframe>s.
The goals of this bold experiment are to improve the overall render speed of content that …
Chrome 69 is notable for us CSS developers:
background: conic-gradient(red, green, blue);): We’ve got lots of interesting articles about conic gradients here, and here’s some use cases and a polyfill from Lea Verou.
