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Details on what Chrome & Edge are actually sending to their spellcheck APIs as well as how to protect sensitive user data using HTML.

You mean this SSL? http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/gogo-inflight-internet...

Comcast: https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/the-network-effect/ Some also block JS (sometimes accidentally). Remember Sky? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/28/…

There is a line: support vs. optimization. Support everyone with a browser & internet access, optimize for the stuff that has the greatest market share or where you can do the most…

I did some actual math on progressive enhancement costs vs. graceful degradation in consideration of reach: https://medium.com/@AaronGustafson/the-true-cost-of-progress...

You can use JavaScript, but it needs to be an enhancement, not necessary for the user to do what they need to do.

You can lazy load libraries for sure. I would still keep those to a minimum, including only what you need. For instance, don’t load all of jQuery if you only need one feature. And …

I plan to write up how the site was built and give some hints as to how you can use lazy loading, etc. to your advantage.

Out of curiosity, which browser are you in? I get 87.9K for the homepage, including all dependencies, lazy loaded JS, the SVG hero, etc. Are you getting WebP images or PNG?

:-) Although minification & GZip should even those out.

Disable JS and view on a small screen :-) It progressively enhances to that size. I’ll be writing about the process and design in forthcoming posts. Smallest view (240px wide) with…

You can use a back-end in Python, Node, PHP, or .NET Core. The size of your back-end doesn’t factor in, just the markup, CSS & JS you deliver.

> For application-centric sites (For example, an internal admin app, or a B2B application where SEO and phones aren't the primary interface) why would I spend the money for the ext…

> If you're just starting a project out, you have to decided whether it's worth an extra X hours/days/weeks for any given bit of technical improvement The thing is, PE is all about…