Re:Passive event listeners
by Ajedi32 on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:07AM
(#15028023)
TL;DR: Some browsers already started doing exactly that. Early results so far seem rather encouraging.
> We improved the performance on a vast swath of the mobile web while causing problems for a very small number of developers/sites and virtually no users (we've heard almost no complaints from users about broken sites). Our data suggests we made the right trade-off for the web platform as a whole and for Chrome as a product.
> We improved the performance on a vast swath of the mobile web while causing problems for a very small number of developers/sites and virtually no users (we've heard almost no complaints from users about broken sites). Our data suggests we made the right trade-off for the web platform as a whole and for Chrome as a product.