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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - The Weird and Wonderful Link Tag

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Technology, News, Tech News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the  tag — why it’s weird and wonderful, and what you can do with it! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 04:16 - What is it? https://ryanflorence.dev/p/ship-weird The link tag is weird. First, it’s not for links! It’s for establishing a relationship between the current HTML document and a resource. 05:11 - CSS / Media attr 07:13 - Web fonts 08:09 - Favicons Syntax 373: Hasty Treat - The Surprisingly Exciting World of Favicons 08:36 - Preload + Prefetch Resource Audio, document, fetch, font, image, script, style, track, video, worker + more 10:15 - Fetch request (shoutout Ryan) 11:27 - Preconnect Consider adding preconnect or dns-prefetch resource hints to establish early connections to important third-party origins. 13:01 - Module 13:30 - Integrity SHA Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Transcript

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0:00.0

Monday Monday Monday open wide dev fans get ready to stuff your face with Javascript CSS

0:07.4

Node module barbecue tips get workflows break dancing soft skills web development the hastiest the

0:13.5

Carrazius the tastiest web development treats coming in hot. Here is West

0:19.3

Barracuda boss and Scott L. Toro loco

0:23.7

Tolinsky

0:26.6

Welcome to syntax in this wonderful and weird episode. We're going to be talking about the weird and wonderful world of the link tag

0:34.9

Which is really one of those tags we've all probably used a hundred times without even thinking about it

0:39.8

And in this episode we're going to be talking a little bit about why it's weird and

0:44.1

What's up with the link tag? What does it do and what are some of the things that I can do?

0:48.0

My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from dead and recolorado and with me as always is West boss

0:53.6

Everybody I excited to talk about the link tag, which is very weird. I excited to talk about link tag too

1:00.2

This episode is sponsored by two amazing companies, which is a sanity and century

1:04.1

You want to take sanity and I'll take century sanity is a structure content CMS. We've talked about the

1:10.4

The technical implementation of sanity may time. Let's talk about some of the cool editor real-time

1:16.8

Collaboration features that they have it's really really cool because it could be the coolest slickest react-based

1:24.4

CMS that you have ever seen in your life

1:27.6

But if the end user doesn't like using the thing at the end of the day

1:31.3

It's not going to fly with your your stakeholders who you're building this thing for so sanity

1:37.1

Let alone it being a very nice technical platform to work on. It's a really good collaboration platform

1:42.5

So you can work on editing content with multiple people you can see what people have crossed out what people have added

1:50.2

Who added things? It's like looks better than Google Docs to be honestly to be honest with you Diane

1:58.0

You can revert you

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