One of the best ways to prevent page bloat is to treat everything as a resource that doesn’t need to be on the page until the user has to interact with it. The technique is called lazy-loading, and can be performed on almost any asset. It’s especially good for responsive websites, when the same content needs to be loaded across multiple devices, while still loading as quickly as possible. Let’s take a look at a few ways to make this possible.
For the last few months, several members of the Wordpress core team, Mat Marquis of the RICG, and I have been hard at work building a Wordpress plugin. While this may not initially sound like very exciting news, the purpose of the plugin is to bring responsive images to the Wordpress platform, with absolutely no effort needed by the user.
Like many before me, I was introduced to jQuery before I was even remotely proficient in vanilla JavaScript. And while I think a web designer can do very well with basic jQuery skills, the further one moves into web development, the more important it is to have an understanding of plain JavaScript.
As a web developer, the security of your site or app should be a top concern, especially as those sites and applications become popular. Tim Evko takes a look at some common front end vulnerabilities, as well as ways to safeguard against them.
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