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Mobile Web Performance Optimization

By : S. S. Niranga
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Mobile Web Performance Optimization

By: S. S. Niranga

Overview of this book

With users increasingly accessing the web on mobile devices, it’s crucial to make sure your website is built to seamlessly fit this radical change in user behavior. Mobile Web Performance Optimization is designed to help you do exactly that – it’s been created to help you build fast, and mobile-user-friendly websites and applications. Featuring guidance through a range of techniques and tools essential to modern mobile development, this accessible guide will make sure you’re delivering a seamless and intuitive experience for your website’s users. Begin by exploring the fundamental components of mobile web design and website optimization, before learning how to put the concepts into practice. Featuring cross-platform solutions, insights on developing lightweight yet robust UI, and insights on how to successfully manage data, this application development book takes you through every stage in the development process – so you can be confident that you’re asking the right questions and using the best tools in the most effective way. By the end, you’ll understand implicitly what it means to ‘build for performance’- you’ll be a more confident developer, capable of building projects that adapt to a changing world.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Mobile Web Performance Optimization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

CSS animation versus JavaScript


Having a nice animation or a text effect doesn't have a direct impact on your mobile site's conversion rate, but it will give your website an attractive look and feel. Nowadays, developers use CSS or JavaScript to create animations, and both of these have negatives and positives. Which method to use totally depends on the project and what kind of animation the developer is going to use. Anyway, I think CSS animations are excellent for simple animations such as toggling the UI element state, and JavaScript animations are good for complex effects such as bouncing, playing, stopping, and so on.

Most simple animations can be created using JavaScript or CSS, but the time you have to spend creating them will be different. So in my opinion:

  • CSS animations are good for smaller, self-contained states for UI elements. For an example, when creating a navigation menu or a tooltip, developers can use a CSS transition property.

  • If you need total control of an element, you...