Author Yoav Weiss

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Yoav Weiss does not get discouraged easily and is not afraid of code. He is a Web performance and browser internals specialist, especially interested in the intersection between Responsive Web Design and Web performance. He has implemented the various responsive images features in Blink and WebKit as part of the Responsive Images Community Group, and is currently working at Akamai, focused on making the Web platform faster. You can follow his rants on Twitter or have a peek at his latest prototypes on Github. When he’s not writing code, he’s probably slapping his bass, mowing the lawn in the French countryside or playing board games with the kids.

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Preload: What Is It Good For?

February 26, 2016 — Preload (spec) is a new web standard aimed at improving performance and providing more granular loading control to web developers. It gives developers the ability to define custom loading logic without suffering the performance penalty that script-based resource loaders … Read More…

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Responsive Image Container: A Way Forward For Responsive Images?

September 24, 2013 — It’s been a year since I last wrote about it, but the dream of a “magical” image format that will solve world hunger and/or the responsive images problem (whichever comes first) lives on. A few weeks back, I started wondering if such an image format could be used to solve … Read More…

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Bandwidth Media Queries? We Don't Need ’Em!

January 9, 2013 — From time to time, when a discussion is taking place about ways to implement responsive images, someone comes along and says, “Hey, guys! What we really need is a media query that enables us to send high-resolution images to people on a fast connection and low-resolution … Read More…