JavaScript

CSS Animations as a DOM-Based Animations Framework

Native lazy loading has arrived!

This article will talk you through Chrome’s new native lazy loading feature and my experience using it at the BBC

New World Service Front Pages: Lessons from our first steps

Server Timing in the Wild

How we expose web performance in iPlayer

Understanding how long the BBC iPlayer website takes to load has always been a difficult challenge which has a real impact on the audience; luckily browsers now have a tremendous amount of…

Optimising iPlayer Translations

Written by Nick Spragg and Nik Rahmel

Introduction

Upskilling engineers cost effectively

How BBC iPlayer provides cost-effective training for engineers by engineers?

As developers, keeping our skills current is essential as technology evolves. Reading books, blogs…

How we built BBC Sounds on the web

In 2017 the engineering teams that had previously worked on iPlayer…

Making a Geohash of it

The technology behind BBC Terrific Scientific

What is BBC Terrific Scientific?

Despite intervention, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) subjects continue to be less popular…