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Thursday, May 5, 2016
A Bear's-Eye View of Yellowstone
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Photomosaic.js : JavaScript for Mosaic of an Image
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LazeeMenu : jQuery Multi-level Sidebar Menu
LazeeMenu is a JQuery plugin that turns a nested unordered list of links into a vertical multi-level navigation menu. It is visually inspired by the menu on Github’s reference pages, but with support for an additional level. It support both links and standard text in the expandable menu items.
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The Art of Turning Instagram Likes Into Sales - #infographic
Are you wondering how to leverage those Instagram‘Likes’ to generate revenue for your business?
“Instagram isn’t for every company, but when it’s done right, it can drive regular sales. If you have a growing Instagram profile that gets some engagement, but you’re not sure how to translate those likes, comments, and follows into sales, these actionable points will help get you started in the right direction.”
This infographic from Salesforce, delineates how by optimizing your profile, making your posts visually intriguing, interacting with your followers and offering deals can turn your Instagram fans into paying customers.
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Patrik Huebner – Creative Coding
Patrik Huebner creates real-time animations, programmed illustrations and audio-reactive art using generative algorithms and creative coding approaches.
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Looking Back: One Year of Microsoft Edge
In 2015, Microsoft launched its first new browser in 20 years: Microsoft Edge. After 8 months, it's on a great trajectory but we're just getting started. Join us to learn about the progress we've made, feedback we've heard, and a whirlwind tour of improvements coming soon. This video is from Microsoft Edge Web Summit, a free conference organized and staffed by the engineers building Microsoft Edge and Chakra. You can find a full day of technical talks covering the EdgeHTML rendering engine, the open-source Chakra JavaScript engine, and developer tools.
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Saving Bandwidth with Chrome’s Data Saver
You’d think that, with the growing importance of mobiles, developers would be catering to them, creating awesome, low bandwidth sites that load quickly when you’re out and about.
Overall though, you’d be wrong. Each year the average page weight / number of resources has increased, this year is looking to be no different as page weight has increased over 16%.
With all of the fancy animations, scrolling elements and other pretty things eventually comes a slower web, as download speeds struggle to keep up with page sizes.
If you want to speed up your browsing experience and reduce how much you download, it might be worth looking into Chrome’s Data Saver option.
Introducing Data Saver
Data Saver is a new feature for Chrome that works to reduce mobile data usage significantly.
Starting way back in 2014, Chrome’s developers worked on an experimental way to reduce the total weight of pages automatically — by leveraging their own servers and technology. It’s actually fairly similar to what Opera has been offering for some time with their turbo mode
.
Data Saver can be enabled on your Mobile (both Android and iOS) by activating it in your settings. Data Saver can also be activated on Opera’s desktop browser by installing the Data Saver Extension.
How Does It Work?
Essentially, Data Saver pushes the work of getting your web content to Google’s servers instead of your device.
When you send off a request to load your favorite site, instead of your browser downloading your content, Data Saver will connect with one of Google’s Optimization servers in their data center and provide the optimized content on your behalf. Here’s a quick illustration:
Image from Google’s blog
What Does Data Saver Actually Do?
Data Saver works by passing Chrome’s network traffic through Google’s servers. The server performs automatic compression, minification, conversion of images and other elements to save you precious bandwidth.
There are several steps to the optimization process that Google implements to bring this all together.
Content via HTTP/2
Where possible, the optimization servers request the content via HTTP/2 instead of HTTP. HTTP/2 is a supercharged version of HTTP. Instead of having dozens of connections, there’s just one co-ordinated TCP connection, cutting down on the server back-and-forth traditionally associated with HTTP — thus helping you get get your content faster. In addition, HTTP/2 can cache future resources so that they can be instantly loaded when needed.
Automatic conversion of images
Images and rich media are among the slowest components to download. Sometimes a single image can weigh more than dozens of scripts and style sheets.
With Data Saver, the optimization server performs an automatic conversion to the new WebP format. WebP is a new image format that supports both lossless (like PNG) and lossy (like JPG) formats. The automatic conversion to WebP saves an impressive amount of space: on average, lossless images such as PNGs, when converted, became 25% smaller, and lossy images such as JPGs are reduced by up to 34%.
You’d think the quality would reflect the size, but the differences between them are marginal. (You can see a comparison on the Google Developers site.)
No images shown at all
For slower connections, instead of optimizing your images, Google will opt to send you no images at all. Once the page has loaded, it will prompt you with an option to enable images (which it will then fetch, compress and send down to the browser).
There’s no way to force this by default, so if you’re on a decent 3G connection — or even 4G — there’s no option to automatically opt to do this (it’s up to Google’s discretion, it seems).
Minification and compression
Another part of the optimization process is that all resources will be automatically minified.
Google’s server will go through all CSS, JS and HTML content and automatically remove all whitespace to cut down on size. It also ensures that all content is served with gzip compression (further speeding up the process).
Better DNS requests
When your device requests a site, often it will have to do a DNS lookup (to convert the URL to an IP address). As part of the compression process, Google’s server will perform the DNS request and either get the information it needs from its cache or fetch it directly.
This might seem like a small enhancement, but this does help to reduce name resolution and speed the whole process up.
Privacy and secured traffic
One thing to note is that Data saver will only work with standard HTTP traffic. As soon as you want to load a secure page over HTTPS, or if you’re using Incognito Mode, Data Saver will switch itself off and the page will be processed like usual.
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