LinkedIn engineering’s client-side template evaluation
LinkedIn shares their evaluation process for choosing a client-side templating solution from 18 different options across 15 formal metrics.
Map input autocomplete types in Chrome 15+
Chrome 15 and above supports mapping input fields to specific types of data to improve the accuracy of autofill tools. The new WHATWG autocompletetype attribute proposal from Ilya Sherman of Google proposes 36 mapped tokens and two sections for autofill agents entering name, address, contact, credit card, business, or birthday data in a web browser.
Open Graph protocol 1.1
Open Graph protocol is a set of HTML+RDF markup elements used to summarize webpages on the public Internet when those pages are shared on Facebook, Google+, mixi, LinkedIn, and more. In this post I will summarize Open Graph protocol markup for easy inclusion in your site templates.
Google searches smartphone web as an iPhone
Google's mobile search engine crawler now uses an updated User-Agent string designed to trigger iPhone-specific renderings of web pages.
Windows 8, plugin-free browsing, and UA spoofing
Microsoft released a developer preview of Windows 8 at this week's BUILD conference including a preview release of the next version of Internet Explorer. The new browser runs in two modes: with and without plugins. Microsoft is bundling a special compatibility view list to spoof iPhone, iPad, or even Firefox User-Agents to trigger special views on websites designed for a plugin-free or full-screen experience.
Google Chrome 13 released to stable channel
Google released Chrome 13 into its stable channel this morning with over 5200 revisions including Instant Pages. If your webpages are not already differentiating between attended and unattended pageviews using the Page Visibility API for site analytics (and other functions assuming live eyeballs and the opportunity for interaction with page elements) your pageview numbers are now likely inflated.
WebKit and Chrome prerendering
Google search result pages now trigger a prefetch of top search result links in an effort to make navigating search results as easy as changing channels on your television. If Google's search algorithms determine there is a significant probability of user click-through on particular result they will instruct supporting browsers to preload the entire destination page including images, JavaScript, advertisements, and analytics. Update your web pages to be aware of the current page visibility state and track interactions, not background tasks.
SSL statistics from Chrome and Googlebot
The Google Chrome team released new statistics and implementation details on their proposed "False Start" abbreviated TLS handshake. Google claims the new handshake, introduced in version 9 of the Chrome browser in February, shaves an average of 120 milliseconds from a typical four-flight TLS handshake by accepting application data before both sides have communicated a "Finished" status.
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The many flavors of H.264 video
H.264 is not a single video codec; it is a family of codecs with some shared shortcuts grouped into 17 sets of profiles and 16 levels of constraints. Video creators and playback software share a mutual understanding of these shortcuts, which are often accelerated by specialized chipsets. This post examines a few of the many flavors of H.264 video and their application in mobile, desktop, and Flash Player environments.
