Steve Souders | Pre-browsing [Fronteers 2013]
Wouldn't it be great if your browser anticipated what you wanted before you asked for it? Web pages could arrive before you finished typing the URL. Science fiction? Not at all. This talk uncovers several techniques available to browsers and web developers today to move us closer to an instantaneous web experience. Preresolve, prefetch, prerender, preload, and other predictors: What do they all mean? Which browsers support them? How do web developers take advantage of them, and make sure not to break them? More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2013/sessions/pre-browsing