“Instead of thinking about web design in terms of ‘mobile’ or ‘desktop’ we should think about layout as a ‘continuum,’ where mobile and desktop may be at the extremes.”

Will serving real HTML content make a website faster?

“It can be one of the best things you can do for a site’s performance.”

“Some of these websites’ skeleton loading pages should add some hold music.”

How fast is your web app?

How to test page transition performance in WebPageTest.

Measure and improve your site’s footprint

The popular WebPageTest tool introduces Carbon Control.

We’re bringing responsive video back

Responsive video becomes a web standard again.

How to use responsive HTML video (...and audio)

HTML video/audio can be delivered using media queries again.

Responsive video with HTML Web Components

How to extend native video behavior in priceless ways.

Conditional web components are perfect for polyfills

A novel way to enable modern features on older browsers.

HTML web components on the server are great

Server-side HTML web components are easier to scale.

Just speculating

What to expect from the new Speculation Rules API.

External, styleable, and scalable SVGs

SVG embeddings that leave little to be desired.

HTML web component with shadow DOM

Sometimes, a little shadow DOM can be a treat.

Getting oriented with HTML video

How to serve a clip in portrait or landscape format.

QR code HTML web component

A handy way to add a QR code to a HTML link.

Fast and smooth third-party web fonts

Loading fonts asynchronously during page rendering.

Self-destructing CSS

What it is and when it matters.

Web components with self-destructing CSS

A safer approach to loading web components.

Lazy HTML media

Native lazy-loading of video/audio elements is coming!

HTML standards in progress

Making video posters responsive and accessible.