How to Use the Web Share API

#395 — June 12, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus How to Use the Web Share API — This API provides a way to trigger the native share dialog of a device when sharing content, such as a link, directly from a website or web app. It's mostly focused on mobile use cases so far but the latest Safari build supports it too. Ayooluwa Isaiah Are Long JavaScript Tasks Delaying Your 'Time to Interactive'? — Chrome DevTools can now visualize ‘Long Tasks’ (code that causes the main thread to freeze, breaking the user experience) making it easier to debug and optimize away any problems. Addy Osmani Image & Video Management Made for Front-End Developers — Simplify and automate the process of uploading, manipulating, optimizing, and delivering images and videos across every device at any bandwidth. Try Cloudinary. See how easy media management can be. Get your own free account today. 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To do this you can append a text= parameter to the end of a font request, like so: <link href="http://bit.ly/1k4Fhr6&text=Frontedcus" rel="stylesheet"> In the example above, we've requested all the letters needed to type out 'Frontend Focus'. Google claims that in some cases this technique can reduce the size of your font file request by up to 90% (in the case above, we've worked out it's a 86% drop from a 9.2KB font to a 1.3KB one) so it's a neat little optimization strategy worth looking into. This week's tip is sponsored by Percy, the all-in-one visual testing platform. Replace manual QA and catch visual UI bugs before your customers do. Get started for free. 🔧 Code, Tools & Resources html5-boilerplate: A Professional Front-End Template for Building Fast, Robust, and Adaptable Web Apps/Sites — This project has been around for several years now, but recently saw an update and remains a highly popular templating choice. 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