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Hasty Treat - The Weird and Wonderful Link Tag

Published: Aug. 16, 2021, 1 p.m.

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the\xa0\xa0tag \u2014 why it\u2019s weird and wonderful, and what you can do with it!

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Show Notes

04:16 - What is it?

  • https://ryanflorence.dev/p/ship-weird
  • The link tag is weird.
  • First, it\u2019s not for links! It\u2019s for establishing a relationship between the current HTML document and a resource.

05:11 - CSS / Media attr

07:13 - Web fonts

08:09 - Favicons

08:36 - Preload + Prefetch Resource

  • Audio, document, fetch, font, image, script, style, track, video, worker + more

10:15 - Fetch request (shoutout Ryan)

11:27 - Preconnect

  • Consider adding preconnect or dns-prefetch resource hints to establish early connections to important third-party origins.

13:01 - Module

13:30 - Integrity

  • SHA
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