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by fchristant 8y ago
hi, author here. "This blog post was tough to read! Seems to have capped out at a 6th grade level." I'm not a native speaker, and this is the best I can do. I was expecting less than 6th grade, so thanks! "Re: the topic,
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by fchristant 8y ago
hi, author here, and thanks. I have a straightforward answer. Build incredible PWAs that users will miss out on on iOS, because it has partial support at best. You'd still serve 80% of the market. I'll admit its a theoretical answ
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by fchristant 8y ago
hi, author checking in. Just doubling down on my statement. I've seen hundreds of discussions and flame wars on browser performance, RAM usage, the ability to keep open 200 tabs. I mean it when I say that I cannot reproduce any of thes
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by fchristant 8y ago
hi, I'm the author. Agree with your point when you read it like that, so I'll clarify what I meant. "Compatible with the web" in the context of this article means compatible with the web that is primarily built to work o
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by fchristant 8y ago
hi, author of the article checking in. Thanks for commenting in the open from Mozilla's perspective, even if its just one voice, it's much appreciated. I agree that Firefox will remain an attraction to the group of people caring a
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The state of web browsers, late 2018 edition(ferdychristant.com)
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by fchristant 9y ago
We have to differentiate between prefetching from search and prefetching from the actual page being opened. Google CAN preload arbitrary websites. They fully load your website, JS included, when they index it. As for the security problem wh
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by fchristant 9y ago
hi, I'm the author of the article. I have no idea how to stop it. Bad press doesn't seem to matter, as this has been around for years. One longshot I could think of is reporting it to the EU as anti-competitive behavior. In the ca
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by fchristant 9y ago
You're missing the entire point. It is fine to have a framework like AMP that puts up technical constraints leading to a performance-friendly web page. The problem is the cache and specifically the preloading of it. This gives AMP an u