WEBFONTS
Changes to web font serving on Typekit
If you've ever used a webfont, then you've probably heard of, or used Typekit. Bram Stein from Adobe is on a mission to improve jarring user experiences that are commonly linked with Webfonts (namely, the ‘flash-of-unstyled-then-invisible-then-styled’ text).
UI DESIGN
Stop the overuse of overflow menus
The rise of the hamburger menu has already been rather well documented, but UI designers have been using the same paradigm for much longer: The "More…" overflow menu.
EXPERIMENTAL
Incremental deltas for the browser
I'm totally intrigued by the very premise of this project by Gaël Métais — the idea is that a service worker will work as a middleware between the browser cache and the origin server.
As requests are made to your server, ‘sw-delta’ will supply the current 'version' of the file being requested to the server, the server will then calculate the difference between the file that the client has already cached, and the newly updated file. Thus, saving crucial bandwidth for other network activity. Neat.
ARTICLE
Performance optimisations for React applications
Alex Reardon wrote this detailed article providing hints and tips on how to write performant react components back in April, but don't let that stop you.
It’s tight. 🤘
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