Baldur Bjarnason
“Adactio: Links—Conditional JavaScript - JavaScript - Dev Tips” adactio.com/links/17707
Conditional JavaScript - JavaScript - Dev Tips
This is a good round-up of APIs you can use to decide if and how much JavaScript to load. I might look into using storage.estimate() in service workers to figure out how much gets pre-cached.
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CSS When/Else Rules
A really interesting proposal for more logic constructs in CSS: when/else conditions. At first glance, this looks like it would complicate the language (and one of the most powerful features of CSS is its simplicity), but when you dig a bit deeper you realise that there’s nothing new enabled by this extra syntax—it actually simplifies what’s already possible.
An Ajax-Include Pattern for Modular Content | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA
Scott walks through the code and thinking behind the conditional loading pattern on The Boston Globe site. This is such a useful and valuable pattern!
Standing still - a performance tinker | Trys Mudford
What Trys describes here mirrors my experience too—it really is worth occasionally taking a little time to catch the low-hanging fruit of your site’s web performance (and accessibility):
I’ve shaved nearly half a megabyte off the page size and improved the accessibility along the way. Not bad for an evening of tinkering.
How To Improve Largest Contentful Paint for Faster Load Times - Calibre
A no-nonsense checklist of good performance advice from Karolina.
In Defence of the Single Page Application | William Kennedy
This is very convincing.
Related posts
Conditionally loading content
Conditional loading is a great technique for responsive designs but we need a better way of communicating between CSS and JavaScript.
Progressively enhancing maps
How I switched to high-resolution maps on The Session without degrading performance.
Responsibility
Fear of a third-party planet.
HTML web components
Don’t replace. Augment.
Speedy tunes
Improving performance on The Session.