Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement - Service Manual - GOV.UK
How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.| www.gov.uk
How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.| www.gov.uk
JavaScript powers the modern web, enabling rich and interactive web applications. In this report we dive into how JavaScript is used on the web, and its adoption and trends both for mobile and desktop experiences.| httparchive.org
Find out which countries have the fastest internet speeds in the world. View global monthly comparisons of fixed and mobile internet speeds.| Speedtest Global Index
New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?| Infrequently Noted
To serve users at the global P75 of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight upgrade on last year's budgets, thanks to device and network improvements. Meanwhile, web developers continue to send more script than is reasonable for 80+% of the world's users, widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots. This is an ethical crisis for frontend. Meanwhile, the most popular tools and frameworks remain in stub...| Infrequently Noted
Some folks claim that Apple's mandated inadequacy for browsers and their engines is somehow beneficial to the cause of ensuring a diverse pool of web engines. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but to understand why, we need to understand how browsers are funded. With that understanding, we can see that not only has Apple has starved its own browser team of resources, but has done grevious damage to Mozilla along the way.| Infrequently Noted
Despite advances in browser tooling, automated evaluation, lab tools, guidance, and runtimes, modern teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. This is not a technical problem per se. It's a management issue, and one that teams can conquer with the right frame of mind and support.| Infrequently Noted
The idea of the browser pre-caching heavily used JS libraries is an attractive nuisance: looks good, probably won't work. Is there a workable version of this idea? What would the constraints on it be? Could it ever be effective and fair? Down the rabbit hole we go.| Infrequently Noted
