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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)

New Soft Navigations origin trial

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-soft-navigations-origin-trial?hl=en

It's on the home page classyschema.org

The original is transparent, I'll put it somewhere.

Classy Schema Logo

I used my nonexistent graphics skills and some mixed advice from ChatGPT. Is this any good...

LOL, I'd have to make one. The favicon is just an image from Font Awesome. I'll see what I can come up with. And thanks for the shoutout.

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...

I don't recall it having any benefit anyhow. I set mine up world wide.

Why is "hay google" (Google Assistant) still so dumb. It's AI based but seems to be forgotten in the LLM world.

Doesn't the importer pay the tariff, or in this case not. Making US cars a bit cheaper for people in Europe, while the US makes the same profit.

Apart from the high steel prices the US has to pay to build their cars, if the steel is not sourced in the US.

This game is going to get interesting.

Experimenting with measuring soft navigations  |  Web Platform  |  Chrome for Developers The Chrome team is working on better measuring so-called soft navigations used by Single Page Applications and a new API is now available behind a flag to allow sites to experiment with this too.

Oooh, new origin trial coming for soft navigation Core Web Vitals 👀

developer.chrome.com/docs/web-pla...

Well said. I hate having to sift through a div jungle trying to find a way to reliably identify elements I need to track.

Happy to take a look at your solution. We do it all the time.

I like this article on Baseline and how to check the level of JavaScript features available to your clients users.

‪@rachelandrew.bsky.social‬

It would be cool if we could check on individual features.

web.dev/articles/how...

Argh, my dad broke his phone. I had an old phone and tried to set it up. Phone wants 2 step verification and the only viable option is email. I try logging into his email, and it wants 2 step verification from the broken phone!!!

His only device is/was the broken mobile.

Today's entertaining comment spam

Holy basil is a lot sharper and stronger.

Spot the gnome

Holy basil then Thai basil

It's a very different shaped plant/leaf with an aroma. I'm currently growing both.

GitHub - GoogleChrome/web-vitals: Essential metrics for a healthy site. Essential metrics for a healthy site. Contribute to GoogleChrome/web-vitals development by creating an account on GitHub.

We've just published v5.0.0 of the web-vitals JavaScript library for measuring Core Web Vitals.

github.com/GoogleChrome...

As a major release, this includes a number of breaking changes as detailed in the upgrading doc:

github.com/GoogleChrome...

Please read carefully before upgrading.

1/5 🧵

I'm starting to see the move for US ecommerce sites to deal with passing on tariffs in different ways.

Some are adding them like shipping, at the checkout, as an extra cost.

How will search engines deal with this? Because of this, the prices they show in search results may be deceptive.

Maybe get @jarnovandriel.bsky.social involved

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The @httparchive.org 's Web Almanac is looking for contributors for this year's edition.

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The agency initially said they were listening to conversations. Note, this was not Facebook but mobile apps in general. E.g. news apps from the agency. Be careful if an app requests access to your mic.

A long time ago, my client was pitched by a large news agency related to "listening". I did some research, and it seems they were using an app library that listened to inaudible TV signals when TV ads were played. It was a remarketing from TV to phone.

YouTube video by BBC Studios Does Anyone Want Any Toast? | Red Dwarf | BBC

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This one was a little too close

It's fine when there is a pool between you and the elephant. Hence, I was comfortable to take the photo.

Or there's an elephant hiding there

Interested in the longer term indexing and traffic 👀