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Re: Web.dev by Google

#151
Which framework is this? Material-what? What is Google's Bootstrap alternative?

It does not look like Angular (which is a J2EE all over again), at least.

Update: I did some research

    cd material-components-web-codelabs/mdc-101/complete
    grep version package-lock.json |wc -l
    943
No. Just no.

Re: Web.dev by Google

#153
post #50

I just ran their audit to https://mail.google.com , you guys (googlers) need to speed up your websites first, Gmail is terrible slow lately, just saying...

You think gmail is slow, try the new adwords interface.

I assume it's the same as the DFP/AdManager interface? Because every click means I can make a new pot of coffee.

Re: Web.dev by Google

#154

Talk about breaking the back button! Do a measurement on a website. Then click one of the Guide links like "Links do not have a discernible name". Page navigates away from the report to some documentation. Click back, report is gone. I get it, it's a single page webapp. But if you do that you need to make all the simple navigations open new tabs. There is a "open link in new button" icon next to each link, but that's…

Ah yeah that's something we want to fix. If you're signed in it keeps the report around but if you're signed-out it's stateless. It's definitely on our to-do list to fix.

Maybe just throw on a target='_blank', no need to do anything fancy

Re: Web.dev by Google

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Not web dev related, but related to Google not focusing on performance: the latest Android release of Google Maps is actually non-functional on my Galaxy S7 because of how slow it is. It completely overloads RAM and crashes. Every time. Hilarious.

You should probably try their third world app version: Google Maps Go Edition. (See e.g. https://www.androidinfotech.com/2018/02/google-maps-go-editi... )

I'm kind of disappointed that this isn't Go the programming language. I thought "that'd be really cool, porting android apps from Java to Go." But no, turns out there are only so many creative words you can come up with when "google" is your starting point.

Re: Web.dev by Google

#158
post #46

I just ran their audit to https://mail.google.com , you guys (googlers) need to speed up your websites first, Gmail is terrible slow lately, just saying...

This is a bad take. By releasing tools like this it helps all websites, including Gmail, have the data on how to speed up their website.

Not really. Would you take webdev advice from a company where their own apps are memory hog/leaking garbage (Gmail)? At some point you need to call a square a square.

Re: Web.dev by Google

#159
post #87

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Do you have a guess why those assets are not cached more aggressively?

This is a complete guess but I suppose one request everyday would be enough to get atleast some idea of how popular any given font is. The page says its to keep them updated but I highly doubt that would be the reason.

So it’s tracking then

Re: Web.dev by Google

#160
post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a bad take. By releasing tools like this it helps all websites, including Gmail, have the data on how to speed up their website.

Not really. Would you take webdev advice from a company where their own apps are memory hog/leaking garbage (Gmail)? At some point you need to call a square a square.

> Not really. Would you take webdev advice from a company where their own apps are memory hog/leaking garbage (Gmail)? At some point you need to call a square a square.

Wait, was web.dev built by the Gmail team? I always assumed Google was bigger and more complex than that?

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