Barry Pollard

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Barely home long enough to repack, I’m back at work and on the road again. This time I’m off to Shanghai for Google I/O Connect China 2025! Say hi if you’re going.

Even cooler!

Voss Gondola

Staring at it right now! Sadly won’t have time as have ziplining booked and also a training booking later.

Did indeed! See follow up photos. Spectacular train ride. Overnighted there, cruised the Fjord this morning and now on the way to Voss for some ziplining and then on to Bergen for last two nights of the holiday!

That’s her indeed!

Pretty little boat houses in Flåm

Angry clouds over Nærøyfjord

Undredal village on the Aurlandsfjord

Dyrdal - a tiny village on the Nærøyfjord

Since you all seemed to appreciate the other photos, here some more from the Fjord cruise.

Oh and btw kids are enjoying themselves! And I do get an occasional “wow” or “cool”. They’re just not quite as enthralled as I am by the views! 😀

Highly recommend the route we took (Copenhagen for two nights, Gothenburg, Oslo for two nights, Flåm, then Bergen for two nights). Theme parks x 2 for first two stops, followed by loads of museums in Oslo, and then lots of nature for this last set of stops.

Sounds like my type of hiker! Wouldn’t you agree @yoav.ws ?

Kids and parents are the worst! As are most people. Basically anyone that’s not me or my significant other. 😁

Snow on the mountains!

One of the many waterfalls on the Flåm Railway

Lady in red dancing by the waterfall

River rapids out the train window…

And it only got better when we jumped off and detoured to Flåm for the night!

View of green fields under a blue sky framed by a train window.

A pretty red building over a rover reflecting the trees and sky overloading by rugged hills.

A pale green lake under a white cloudy sky.

Grey and white clouds over a green lake.

The kids are not appreciating the majestic beauty of the Oslo-Bergen line so hopefully one of you all will…

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In just over a month, I will be in Freiburg, Germany to present at @smashingconf.com about web performance! The lineup looks fantastic. If you’re considering going, here’s a link with a discount code. I hope to see you there! ti.to/smashingmaga...

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Nyhavn canal area in Copenhagen

Worth it!

I try my best not to but often they’ve priced everyone out of certain routes.

In tiny italic font hidden somewhere at the side or bottom? Like academic PDFs? It’s not like for research it’s good to know when it was published and so how relevant it might still be…

Still true. And in fact worse as fetchpriority and loading=lazy is not supported for <video>.

Loading=lazy would be good to bring to <video> (though need to think through with preload) but fetchpriority I’m not so sure.

I still like <img> for gif-like short-form “videos” and wish we supported it.

Flying Ryanair is always such a relaxing start to the holiday isn’t it… 🤔

A fix started rolling out shortly after I sent above message and we've seen it recovering since. You may still see some issues until it's fully rolled out but should be less and less over time.

We are indeed! Glad to hear you like it!

We’re investigating an issue with PageSpeed Insights. Will get it working again soon…

New Soft Navigations origin trial  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers New Soft Navigations origin trial launching to help measure Core Web Vitals for Single Page Applications (SPAs)

Wanna measure Core Web Vitals for for SPAs?

Well we've been working on the Soft Navigations API for that and we're launching a new origin trail from Chrome 139.

More details here:
developer.chrome.com/blog/new-sof...
And the docs have also been updated: developer.chrome.com/docs/web-pla...

Welcome back to the web platform!

Me, sitting behind a cuddly toy of a fox. Ok it's obviously Firefox.

Starting my new role on Monday. Could be anywhere.

Extended lifetime shared workers origin trial  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers Extended lifetime shared workers origin trial

Here's an interesting new feature the Chrome team's working on to allow async code to more reliably run on document unload:
developer.chrome.com/blog/extende...

A much lighter alternative to a full service worker, when you don't need all the functionality that brings.

Let me know any feedback!

It’s the way I roll 😉

Happy 20th birthday MDN!  |  Blog  |  web.dev Celebrating MDN&#39;s 20th birthday with cake.

Happy 20th birthday MDN!

https://web.dev/blog/mdn-birthday?hl=en

A laptop top with a slide deck, next to a cup of Barry’s tea.

On my way to Dublin to give a talk this evening at the Google offices for GDG Dublin on all the improvements we’ve been making to Chrome DevTools.

Say hi if you’re going and I might even reward you with a shiny Chrome dino sticker…

una.im | Creating a scroll-spy with 2 lines of CSS scroll-target-group is a new CSS feature that lets you create scroll-spy table of contents with basically 2 lines of CSS.

scroll-target-group is coming to Chrome 140 (stable next month)!

Building on CSS carousel APIs, scroll-target-group lets you "enhance" elements into scroll markers, enabling you to build this scroll-spy effect in 2 lines of CSS!

Makes for a great progressive enhancement!

una.im/scroll-targe...

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?