Speculation Rules

Ryan Seddon makes clear the potential performance problem with cross-page View Transitions: … on a slow or spotty network, the transition may appear as if the screen is freezing, as the browser waits for the page to load before it can transition smoothly between the two screens—this is not ideal. But also that our new […]

I’m a big fan of View Transitions. Part of what they can do, animating elements across fresh page loads, is a uniquely powerful ability. The performance story, though, is a bit complicated. You might think because you don’t have to reach for a JavaScript framework with Single Page App abilities to do this, it could […]

Boris Schapira takes a look at the Speculation Rules API that we just had a poke at around here. Boris notes that this idea of prefetching (or prerendering) the next page that a user might visit has quite a history. One of the players in this game, which is still a pretty good choice as […]

This new API enables client-side prerendering, improving performance for users who are likely to visit a new page.