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Mar 27

Preload, Prefetch And Priorities in Chrome

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

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Addy Osmani in Dev Channel
Feb 9

JavaScript Start-up Performance

As web developers, we know how easy it is to end up with web page bloat. But loading a webpage is much…

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Go to the profile of Paul Kinlan
Paul Kinlan in Dev Channel
Jul 24, 2016

IntersectionObserver’s coming into view

Author: Surma

Let’s say you want to track when an element in your DOM enters the visible viewport. You might want to do this so you can lazy-load images just in time or because you need to know if the user is actually looking at a…

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Jul 23, 2016

Improving scroll performance with passive event listeners

New to Chrome 51, passive event listeners are an emerging web standard that provide a major potential boost to scroll performance. Check out the video below for a side-by-side demo of the improvements in action:

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Jul 22, 2016

CSS Containment in Chrome 52

Author: Paul Lewis

TL;DR

The new CSS Containment property lets developers limit the scope of the browser’s styles, layout and paint work.

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