State of Chrome by Addy Osmani at This.JavaScript.
Sashko Stubaio Gives us the latest update on Chrome.
In 2016, PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) were made to give users a fast, engaging, and more meaningful experience on mobile devices. There was a lot of good traction that came with its release and in 2017, PWA became more mainstream. It is now being adapted by more organizations and companies, such as Twitter and Forbes.
Key Points
- Introducing Twitter Lite
- Improvements : better integration with Android and improved capabilities
- New features : Shape detection API, Image capture API, Payment Request APIo
- Improving performance : Optimization for real world workloads across popular pages (V8 - Octane, Speedometer), working towards Parity on ES2015 performance, Modules implementation, and dynamic import implementation
- Dev tools : code coverage, request blocking, Audits 2.0
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