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Preload, Prefetch And Priorities in Chrome

Today we’ll dive into insights from Chrome’s networking stack to provide clarity on…

Just make it look pretty…

The assumption that designers and developers sole role is to either make things look pretty or to be a cog in a machine with no soul.

The New and Improved Add to Home screen

Chrome first introduced the “Add to Home screen” banners in Chrome 51. This was a big step for the web as it provided users the ability to easily keep a favorite site on their Home screen, much like native apps. We’ve heard from developers like Alibaba that…

Detecting text in an image on the web in real-time

How should we load web components?

Within the last 6 months, it felt like a good time to get on board properly with Web Components so…

Screen recording on Android with getUserMedia and WebRTC

Chrome on Home

I am an ardent believer in The Headless Web, that is the interaction points that your users will have with the web will not be in the traditional browser but deeply integrated on the users device via things like notifications and cards, in webviews and services, and on new types of devices and in ways…

My blog’s Service Worker and Caching Strategy Part 2

About 5 months ago I documented my Service Worker caching strategy and it was noted that it wouldn’t work in Firefox because of my use of waitUntil. It was also noted that, well, my Service Worker didn’t actually work. It worked for me or…

Barcode detection using Shape Detection API

The other week I talked about Face Detection via the Shape API that is in the Canary channel in Chrome. Now barcode detection is in Chrome Canary too (Miguel is my hero ;)