The present and potential future of progressive image rendering - JakeArchibald.com
When I set about writing this article, I intended it to be a strong argument for progressive rendering. But after digging into it, my feelings are less certain.
10K Apart
The 10K competition—spiritual successor to Stewart Butterfield’s 5K.org—is back. This time there’s no escape clause with web fonts or jQuery. You can lazy-load in more content after the initial 10K payload …but whatever you’re building needs to be usable in that first 10K.
Give it a go. There’s nothing like having a constraint to really get the creative juices flowing.
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How creating a Progressive Web App has made our website better for people and planet
Creating a PWA has saved a lot of kilobytes after the initial load by storing files on the device to reuse on subsequent requests – this in turn lowers the load time and carbon footprint on subsequent page views, making the website better for both people and planet. We’ve also enabled offline access, which significantly improves user experience for people in areas with patchy connections, such as mobile users on their commute.
Why Progressive Web Apps Are The Future of Mobile Web [2019 Research]
PWAs just work better than your typical mobile site. Period.
But bear in mind:
Maybe simply because the “A” in PWA stands for “app,” too much discussion around PWAs focuses on comparing and contrasting to native mobile applications. We believe this comparison (and the accompanying discussion) is misguided.
Home | web.dev
I guess this domain name is why our local developmemnt environments stopped working.
Anyway, it’s a web interface onto Lighthouse (note that it has the same bugs as the version of Lighthouse in Chrome). Kind of like webhint.io.
Progressive Web Games – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
I was just talking about how browser-based games are the perfect use-case for service workers. Andrzej Mazur breaks down how that would work:
- Add to Home screen
- Offline capabilities
- Progressive loading
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Pattern Libraries, Performance, and Progressive Web Apps
You should hire Clearleft for these front-end development skills.
Less JavaScript
The Google developer relations team are dishing out some inconvenient truths.
Enhance! Conf!
The first conference dedicated to progressive enhancement.
Installing web apps
Here’s an HTML web component you can use if you’re participating in the origin trial for the Web Install API.
Simplify
Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.