2 blog posts tagged JavaScript

MAR

10

2017

Development3 minutes

Download files with progress in Electron via window.fetch

Working on Atom lately, I need to be able to download files to disk. We have ways to achieve this, but they do not show the download progress. This leads to confusion and sometimes frustration on larger downloads such as updates or large packages.

NOV

27

2007

Development2 minutes

Shrinking JS or CSS is premature optimization

Rick Strahl has a post on a JavaScript minifier utility the sole job of which is to shrink the size of your JavaScript whilst making it almost impossible to read in order to save a few kilobytes.I thought I’d take a quick look at what the gain would be and fed it the latest version (1.6) of the very popular Prototype library: