Application Shells and Service Workers: Links and Resources
General Resources and Concepts Is ServiceWorker Ready Service Workers Sepcification at W3C Instant Loading Web Apps with An Application Shell Architecture Examples and tutorials Jake...
Application Shells and Service Workers: sw-toolbox and Polymer
Building a ServiceWorker using Google libraries # Google provides an abstraction layer over Service Workers called sw-toolbox that hides a lot of the complexities of a Service Worker without...
Application Shells and Service Workers: Caching Strategies
Caching strategies: what, how, when # Jake Archibald’s Offlline Cookbook outlines several strategies to use Service Workers. The two most common ones are cache-first and network-first. In a...
Application Shells and Service Workers: Building Manually
The first way to build a ServiceWorker is to manually write Javascript to accomplish the task. We’ll look at the basics of a service worker and different strategies to cache the content basd on our...
Application Shells and Service Workers: Introduction
Application Shells and Service Workers # We’ll work through the process of manually adding a service worker without tools or web components. We will then look at building a progressive web application...
Can the web look like print? Interesting things coming down the pipeline
Out of the many things in the CSS working group universe I’ve picked 3 to highlight because I think they have the most potential to make our web layouts look closer to a printed experience. Exclusions...
Can the web look like print? Tools and techniques
Do we have the tools to do print on the web? # More and more I'm starting to think we can do a fairly nice job of doing print-like layouts for our web content. Not all the technologies are ready yet...
Can the web look like print? Why Not
This topic may sound familiar to people who have been reading my blog for a while. I’ve posted about most, if not all the component technologies I’ll be speaking about below. I hope I can change the...
Prollyfilling CSS today
One of the most frustrating things from doing CSS development is all the cool things that appear on the horizon that we can't really use right now and won't be able to until browser vendors decide...
Cutting the Mustard
my take on cutting the mustard # I'm old enough to remember doing some serious browser detection when building pages. We had to detect browsers because they worked different enough (even within...