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I've updated the article to emphasize that this is indeed something we're experimenting with, and explain a bit more how built-in modules go through the standards process (in gener…

Article author here, I probably should have been clearer in the article. I was trying to strike a balance between: - presenting what I believe to be a compelling and exciting possi…

This is not different from existing web APIs, which are also not versioned.

https://github.com/WICG/import-maps#scoping-examples

There are links to all the standards work in the article. All of the APIs mentioned are going through the standards process.

It's likely not "blocked" by analytics since pretty much all analytics libraries get loaded async. However, scripts loaded before the `load` event do delay the load event, and anal…

That 56K number isn't gzipped, gzipped it's only 18K (plus there's also some inline JS, some webpack boilerplate, and then analytics.js). The reason for its size is my site is my p…

Right, when I said "what's taking so long to run?", in my mind I was thinking there'd be one obviously slow thing that I could just remove or refactor, but it turned out that it wa…

Article author here. Yep, not hiding that fact (I could have easily used a trace with minified code, but I didn't to point this out). Two things though: 1. I used to work on Google…

Article author here. Most of the comments so far are talking about using lots of tabs, but what I think is actually the most interesting part (or parts) of the article hasn't been …

This isn't true. The proposal was discussed many times in the WebPerf working group and went through a TAG review before shipping. Microsoft made a public statement of support for …

I didn't know about that. I'll look into it!

You're right about it not working for webpack dev server, and I agree that it's unfortunate, but I think webpack will evolve to accommodate this. [EDIT: it looks like this is alrea…

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There is a way. Every autotrack plugin that sends hits has two configuration options that enable full customization over exactly what fields get sent with each hit. The options are…

The library is designed to be loaded async, so it shouldn't affect load performance. And it uses new APIs (e.g. IntersectionObserver) and techniques like throttle/debounce for all …

As dudus mentions: the GA article posted yesterday includes a recommendation to use this library. As for a comparison of it vs. the GTM setup used by thenextweb, I briefly explain …

There are tons of things GTM can't do currently, unless you're willing to write custom code. And if you're writing custom code, I'd personally prefer that code to be in my app, und…

The maxScrollTracker documentation warns against using it with an infinite scroll type of page: https://github.com/googleanalytics/autotrack/blob/master/doc... As for under reporti…

analytics.js falls back to the older methods in unsupporting browsers.

No, that is an accurate impression. The ultimate goal of Houdini is to give developers the tools to innovate; unlike the current situation were all innovation happens at the spec l…

> I guess that depends on how you define debate. I'm referring to that the proposal is made and some people show their distaste for part of what is proposed. Those that made the pr…

Polymer partially polyfills CSS Custom Properties: https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/docs/devguide/styling.ht... Also, for what it's worth, not all new JavaScript features are po…