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Fear and concrete in Las Vegas: a great piece of infrastructure reportage by Georgina.
Fear and concrete in Las Vegas: a great piece of infrastructure reportage by Georgina.
Much as I respect Tim Berners-Lee, his logic here is completely flawed. First of all, treating DRM as though it’s an implacable force of nature is a category error. Secondly, EME doesn’t in any provide a standardised solution: it provides a sandbox for each DRM vendor to inject their own proprietary solution.
The new Clearleft website is live! Huzzah!
Many people have been working very hard on it and it’s all looking rather nice. But, as I said before, the site launch isn’t the end—it’s just the beginning.
There are some obvious next steps: fixing bugs, adding content, tweaking copy, and, oh yeah, that whole “testing with real users” thing. But there’s also an opportunity to have some fun on the front end. Now that the site is out there in the wild, there’s a real incentive to improve its performance.
Off the top of my head, these are some areas where I think we can play around:
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. A smart font-loading strategy—at least for the body copy—could really help improve the perceived performance.srcset
.I’m looking forward to tinkering with some of those technologies. Each one should make an incremental improvement to the site’s performance. There are already some steps on the back-end that are making a big difference: upgrading to PHP7 and using HTTP2.
Now the real fun begins.