Content tagged “frameworks”

  1. Answers to Questions About Performance — Google Developers — Medium

    Google’s Paul Lewis answers the same questions that Matt Gaunt received (and that I previously linked to). Paul’s focus on the user and their experience of our work resonates strongly with me and is something I harp on quite frequently.

    I think performance, accessibility, and security share some traits: they can’t be retro-fitted to a project, they’re often thankless tasks, and they’re only notable by their absence. They’re all, however, the bedrock of a good user experience, onto which you can layer high quality designs and interactions.

    Paul also cites one of my favorite documents, the W3C’s HTML Design Principles:

    In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity.

    Truth.

  2. Web Development is a Balancing Act — Medium

    Google Chrome Developer Advocate Matt Gaunt publicly answers some Web performance-related questions he received. Many of the questions have to do with frameworks, a topic of great interest to me.

    A slow website, no matter how it’s built, means someone didn’t notice, didn’t care or couldn’t fix the problem. That doesn’t mean the framework or tools used to build it is the problem, it could be the way those tools have been used.

    It could also be that the chosen tool isn’t the best solution to the problem at hand.