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by firasd 10y ago
Please follow the thread of the conversion. I'm talking about how to mitigate the page reflow issues that the posted article is talking about when lazy loading images and other resources.
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by firasd 10y ago
Yes, by "placeholder" I mean the IMG element that loads with an initial low-res/default "src" attribute. Then the actual, higher-bandwidth image will load by updating the "src" attribute.
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by firasd 10y ago
But blank and pixellated images that get filled out later are what I'd recommend. The alternative is looking at a blank screen while your browser makes upfront HTTP requests for images, which can delay render-blocking resources like a
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by firasd 10y ago
Yes but the resolution of those "some images" depends on what kind of connection/device you're on. It's not adequate to say 'just send the lowest bandwidth experience', because then every desktop browser o
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by firasd 10y ago
Lazy-loading (the practice being somewhat criticized here) is actually halfway to that goal. The BBC (cited in this article) also uses a technique they call 'cutting the mustard', which checks which features are available on the b
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by firasd 10y ago
I used to write quick blog posts some years ago, and post on social media often, but I never wrote something I considered a professional article because of hesitations like you're expressing: it needs to be 'uniquely insightful&#x
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by firasd 10y ago
Yeah, maybe they're taking off in India and China because of a "leapfrog" opportunity. For example, pre-paid digital wallets are used to pay for ride-sharing, whereas in the U.S people just use the same card that they already
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by firasd 10y ago
I find these products like Apple Pay and Android Pay to be too old-school, doubling down on the dependence on banks and credit cards. They need to go ahead and load funds into the app like a digital wallet. Two links about this (first link
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by firasd 10y ago
Good article. Podcasts still have a 'Web 2.0', pre-Facebook ethos: there's a feed, and there are software clients that check the feed and get a direct link to the mp3 file. Personally, I want to make a site that archives podc
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by firasd 10y ago
I'm not disputing the architectural choices behind Node's async model. I'm talking about syntax. It's cool that you can process multiple promises at the same time, but most of the time I need one promise to complete befo
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by firasd 10y ago
You might like this article: https://medium.com/@theflapjack103/the-way-of-the-gopher-669...
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by firasd 10y ago
So in PHP, you would go (I haven't tested these snippets, just writing them out here): $username = get_username(); echo "Hi, ".$username; do_other_things(); In Node, using promises, you have to write: get_usern
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by firasd 10y ago
I've been on a similar learning curve with Node over the last year, and it has certainly been a rougher incline than other languages I've used. The whole async situation needs to settle down, it's completely unacceptable to w
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by firasd 10y ago
Github link for get-staight-to-the-code types :) https://github.com/firasd/react-sync-demo
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Interface from Data: using React to sync UI and offline activity across devices(medium.com)
1 points by firasd 10y ago|1 comments
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Interface from Data: using React to sync updates and offline edits across devices(medium.com)
1 points by firasd 10y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 10y ago
One of the most aesthetically "future proof" movies is probably 2001: A Space Odyssey. Compare Star Wars, released almost a decade later, and how the Stormtrooper armor looks dated (at least to me): http://i.imgur.com&#
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by firasd 11y ago
The other similarity across the industries you mention is that people want to participate in them for 'passion', in a way they wouldn't participate in, say, accounting.
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by firasd 11y ago
Interesting. I definitely want to experiment with something like that. Most examples I've seen of a WP theme in React (e.g. https://github.com/Automattic/Picard ) use the new WP API and a node.js app. So there are
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by firasd 11y ago
I suppose it depends on how complicated the logic is behind your conditional HTML. If there is an initial JS payload that checks the screen size, I might still try to get an HTML string back from the server after checking the size. But ther
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by firasd 11y ago
Google has been working on this (I don't have deep knowledge of whether their solution is adequate for SEO. I just found this article that suggests it works fine: http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-java
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by firasd 11y ago
For sure. I was always uncomfortable with JS frameworks that used markup with no content from the server. In my professional experience I've also found that developers underestimate how slow Ajax requests are in real world scenarios. I
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by firasd 11y ago
Ideally there should be a way to render JavaScript on the server side for views/templates, like React, without having to write your whole backend in JS. In fact I just googled and found something like this in the reactjs commmunity rep
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by firasd 11y ago
Not quite sure what you mean? If you turn off JavaScript in the example app you do get something like that—the links reload the browser page, and the comment form submits the comment, then renders the new state of comments (just by processi
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by firasd 11y ago
Google has been saying that for years, but I don’t really believe it… 1) First there were the "hashbang" URLs, that Google said they'd crawl fine, but that did affect Gawker's SEO: http://www.webmonkey.com&#x2
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Rendering React without browser JavaScript(medium.com)
67 points by firasd 11y ago|55 comments
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Quick Start Tutorial: Universal React, with Server Side Rendering(medium.com)
4 points by firasd 11y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 11y ago
The crux of the difference seems to be, in the Node.js service: "when any request timeouts happened, the event and its associated callback was put on an already overloaded message queue. While the timeout event might occur at 1 second
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Quick Start Tutorial: React Redux without ES6 or Webpack(medium.com)
1 points by firasd 11y ago|0 comments
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Using Redux in React Apps(medium.com)
1 points by firasd 11y ago|0 comments

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