712: Lazy Loading the Web with Scott Jehl
Chris Coyier and Scott Jehl discuss the recent advancements in lazy loading on the web, the process of standardization, browser support, and the future of web performance optimization.
Time Jump Links
- 00:00:42 Introducing Scott Jehl
- 00:02:07 Should most images have lazy loading of some sort?
- 00:06:10 iFrames also have lazy loading support
- 00:08:31 Can you decide how much video to preload?
- 00:11:18 What about GIFs?
- 00:12:19 You can defer autoplay
- 00:18:01 Sponsor: Sanity
- 00:19:50 How did lazy loading happen?
- 00:26:44 Why would it get removed?
- 00:29:06 The struggle of creating streaming appropriate video
- 00:30:12 What was the story of getting lazy loading working?
- 00:44:30 Writing for a spec
- 00:48:34 Setting flags from the command line
- 00:50:54 The poster attribute on video
Links
- Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer
- YouTube Embeds are Bananas Heavy and it's Fixable – Frontend Masters Blog
- How To Use Standard HTML Video & Audio Lazy-Loading on the Web Today — Squarespace Engineering Blog
- Squarespace & Web Standards: How We Helped Bring HTML Video & Audio Lazy Loading to Today's Browsers — Squarespace Engineering Blog
- web-platform-tests documentation — web-platform-tests documentation