Eric Martin
Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

Thanks, Addy Osmani. Because JavaScript is such a burden for users, and because developers still get it wrong, could Google do something about it? Could Chrome do something about it? Perhaps Google should use machine learning to cache the most important parts of JavaScript, and then Chrome can call Google’s faster cache instead of the original source (this caching could be disabled by the user). Even more revolutionary would be if Google used machine learning within Chrome and with its web crawlers to create load-time priorities for web pages, so that JavaScript that is never used on a page would not be loaded by Chrome, and the most important snippets of JavaScript that show a visually appealing, functional, and complete page would be loaded first. This could also be toggled on or off by the user. In other words, developers can hope for their page to load in a certain way, but ultimately the user is in control, and Chrome will empower the user by helping the user to have much faster page loads and a faster ability to interact with a page, especially on mobile. All of this if they choose to enable it.

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