By: ManoDestra
jQuery was fine back in the day when browser compatibility was a serious concern, but this is no longer the case. That, along with the security aspect and the additional skill requirement, are all...
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In reply to Barnok Balavan. Your privilege is showing the "cooked" data is out there: https://httparchive.org/reports/loading-speed#ol Read the comments:...
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In reply to Proteus. Why would a team want to continue using a 3rd party with a known security issues? It's technical debt at the end of the day, Unless they just leave everything in there forever??...
View ArticleBy: Hahah
Haha. I have a better idea. Just turn off the javascript at all, host the site on Nginx and voila, you will have a duper duper fast website loading and of course, last but not least one of ugliest and...
View ArticleBy: CK
In reply to Barnok Balavan. @Barnok: Oh dear, you missed the point. @Gov.uk: Good work guys, I roll my own and it makes a noticeable difference on older devices. Plenty of people still using them....
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In reply to Barnok Balavan. hmmm, seems comments are removed even if they support gov.uk...weird
View ArticleBy: Andy Sellick
In reply to dfl. Hi thanks for your questions, We saw jQuery as technical debt that would eventually be removed from GOV.UK. It should have been mentioned in the post, but we have nothing against...
View ArticleBy: Matt Hobbs
In reply to Mads. Hi thanks for your questions, For the daily synthetic testing by default nothing is cached between tests, this is the default for WebPageTest on which the synthetic tests are built,...
View ArticleBy: Dave Methvin
Something is strange with the scripts on, for example, the http://www.gov.uk site. There is a lot of duplicated code in the two files loaded at the bottom of the page, and it seems to include a shim...
View ArticleBy: Matt Hobbs and Andy Sellick
In reply to Dave Methvin. Hi Dave, You’re right, there is some duplication in the JavaScript, but this is minimised through the Brotli compression technologies we employ on the Content Delivery Network...
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