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Jan 22, 2018

Browser Rendering Queue in-depth.

An in-depth full explanation on how browsers manage to push pixels on the screen, and how to improve performance. — Before you read This is the continuation of this previous article on browsers’ internals (JavaScript focused), if you haven’t already read it, take 10-minutes and give it a shot (good content inside, I promise). The critical importance of delivering 60FPs If you are just doing simple stuff like CSS animations, simple landing pages, using few and lightweight elements, avoiding…

Web Development

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Browser Rendering Queue in-depth.
Browser Rendering Queue in-depth.

Nov 12, 2017

JavaScript main thread. Dissected. 🔬

A look inside browsers to discover how the JavaScript main thread handles our (good?) code — This post is not about the NBJF (a.k.a. …

Java Script

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JavaScript main thread. Dissected. 🔬
JavaScript main thread. Dissected. 🔬

Sep 17, 2017

YouTube switched to CSS variables, what are them?

A short intro on CSS variables and why they could be useful for you. — As you can see by inspecting a little with the Dev Tools in the new YouTube redesigned page (or just watching the video 👍🏽), it highly relies on CSS variables under the hood. By just changing one CSS variable from the inspector you…

CSS

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YouTube switched to CSS variables, what are them?
YouTube switched to CSS variables, what are them?
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