Make the Web Work for Everyone

Re:Make the Web Work for Everyone by nathancahill on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @11:24AM (#12043669)

MDN will be a huge legacy for Mozilla. Of all of their projects, I think MDN will have the biggest impact on the web. It's absolutely needed for someone who just wants to know the order of function parameters.

For a more nuanced understanding of browser behavior, you have to read the spec. Worked on a high performance network app, and I think I know the XHR spec by heart now.

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Re:Make the Web Work for Everyone by awalGarg on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @12:58PM (#12044376)

> Worked on a high performance network app, and I think I know the XHR spec by heart now.

I am curious, can you elaborate on this? :) What part of the performance related work involved peeking at the XHR spec so much?

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Re:Make the Web Work for Everyone by nathancahill on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @02:13PM (#12044855)

For mapping applications, tiles are loaded to display data. These requests have to be handled carefully, especially when there is a lot of data, because every map movement causes 10s of requests to be fired at once. Their lifecycles have to be managed so they can be cancelled as soon as their result isn't needed (user panned away, or changed zoom level).

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Re:Make the Web Work for Everyone by Klathmon on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @11:27AM (#12043691)

I couldn't agree more, and I also think it influenced the standards bodies. New ES[year] specs include lots of very MDN-esque explanations, examples, and "polyfills" for the new features.

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