JavaScript Promises: There and back again
Promises have arrived natively in JavaScript!
The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
Promises have arrived natively in JavaScript!
This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko is the result of much research done by Israeli developer Tali Garsiel. Over a few years, she reviewed all the published data about browser internals (see Resources) and spent a lot of time reading web browser source code.
You can’t read about service workers without getting excited—they’re the behind-the-scenes infrastructure that make it possible for web pages to act more like web applications.
IE10 and above added support for the ‘cut’ and ‘copy’ commands through the Document.execCommand() method. As of Chrome version 43, these commands are also supported in Chrome.
HTML Imports allow bundling HTML/CSS/JS as a single resource. While useful by themselves, this idea becomes extremely powerful in the world of Web Components.
With some careful instrumentation and adoption of object pools, you can reduce this burden on your frame rate, and reclaim that time for more awesome things.