The latest installment in my ‘Today’s Readings’ series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including View Transitions, Scroll Transitions, @property, @scope, Custom Properties and more. Happy reading! Continue reading
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Today’s Readings
The latest installment in my ‘Today’s Readings’ series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including CSS animation, CI/CD, GitHub tools, JS, performance, RWD, Speculation Rules and more. Happy reading! Continue reading
How do I know if a resource needs a `crossorigin` attribute or not?
Ever need to find out whether a resource loaded into a page requires the `crossorigin` attribute? I did, and it wasn’t easy. But here’s how… Continue reading
Today’s Readings
The latest installment in my ‘Today’s Readings’ series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including AI, bfcache, code pruning, CWVs, DevTools, INP, Performance, SEO and more . Happy reading! Continue reading
Today’s Readings
The latest installment in my ‘Today’s Readings’ series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including AI, CSS/Animation/View Transition, CI/CD/Automation, DevTools/debugging, JS and more. Happy reading! Continue reading
Today’s Readings
The latest installment in my ‘Today’s Readings’ series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including the latest & greatest CSS, custom accents for forms, a ton of DevTools tips, WebPerf snippets, popovers, HTML email and more. Happy reading! Continue reading
Today’s Readings
With the current events of the world, it is hard to focus or care about work-related things… But I feel it is also critical to try to find other mental outlets, lest we spiral into complete and total despair… With that in mind, I will try re-route some of my attention to the world of web technologies. Please consider giving yourself a break, too, with the latest “Today’s Readings”. Today’s topics include Performance, CWV & INP, CSS animation, DevTools, responsive images and more. Happy reading! Continue reading
bfcache: Improve Back & Forward Page Views
Back/forward cache (or bfcache) is a browser optimization that enables instant back and forward navigation. It is now supported in all modern browsers and requires nothing from you to work. Other than, not to break it, that is… Happy caching! Continue reading
Using the User Timing API to Record Custom Performance Metrics
We have always had some form of testing metric. Back in the day we used things like the window.onload event or something similar. Then we started getting more sophisticated with TTFB, FCP, etc. Finally, along came CWVs, which continue to grow and evolve. But sometimes you just need to measure something that isn’t covered by all of these. And that’s where the User Timing API comes in. Happy reading! Continue reading
Record a Performance in DevTools, then Replay it in WebPageTest
WebPageTest (WPT) recently released a Chrome Extension that allows you to record an experience in DevTools, export that experience, then add that export to WPT to run as a test. Happy testing! Continue reading