Making Web Apps as Smooth as Native
summary
Describes how the Financial Times built its HTML5 web app to deliver reading experiences comparable to native apps and print, naming HTML5 as the platform. Covers the specific engineering challenges of creating high-quality HTML5 UX today and the large set of hacks and extreme techniques used to achieve performance and polish. Argues for investing in durable web technologies and anticipates platform improvements that will remove many current workarounds.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:19The uncanny valley
- 18:36Prefetch and friends
- 20:44Old flexbox
- 23:37Frame rates
- 24:34Layout boundary The area the browser has to re-layout when you change something
- 25:50Layout boundary (fixed)
- 37:05localStorage vs IndexedDB
- 40:37Squeeze your bits
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