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Not to nitpick, but XManager was built by the Platform team at DeepMind, not DeepMind for Google, though they helped roll it out beyond DeepMind. (I was on the XManager team in Pla…

The frontend repository above is only for the user-facing front-end website (aka the guardian.com). Other back-end components such as the content API and the content creation tool …

> `await import('./foo.js')` could kick off a speculative fetch for foo.js Interesting, and kind of makes sense. However: > Of course that doesn't help for dynamic cases like `` aw…

It seems you have chosen a bit of an edge case. Agreed the videos shouldn't pre-load, but to take a more standard example of a simple article: AMP: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/…

As you can probably see yourself from the screenshot and video, not much. There may be some subconscious influence from the old system and other image systems we have used (Lightro…

> are there some video features (like kaltura or youtube simple editing)? Not at this stage, no. We're currently focusing on images. > how does "Indesign integration" exactly work?…

As other replies have said, this is functionally a DAM. It is particularly adapted to the requirements of publishers, in that it supports large number of images (we have over 3M cu…

It has some similarities with Thumbor (incl. cropping and resizing assets, etc), but the two are quite different. Thumbor goes a bit further than Grid with features like face recog…

People interested in Duo may also want to have a look at jspm.io. It solves a similar problem, but with a few differences which to me are advantages: - Transparently supports modul…

Markdown was indeed considered, but we ended up rejecting the idea for a variety of reasons. Given the interest around this decision in several comments here, maybe we should write…

They're quite happy with it (except when it breaks, understandably). Mostly, they just want it to work as they expect (i.e. like Word or Google Docs), so the goal is for them to no…