August 16th, 2021 × #html#link-tag#webdev
Hasty Treat - The Weird and Wonderful <link> Tag
Discussion on the various uses of the link HTML tag beyond just linking.
Wes Bos Host
Scott Tolinski Host
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the <link> tag — why it's weird and wonderful, and what you can do with it!
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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
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.
<link rel="preconnect" href="[https://fonts.googleapis.com](https://fonts.googleapis.com/)"><link rel="preconnect" href="[https://fonts.gstatic.com](https://fonts.gstatic.com/)" crossorigin>
13:01 - Module
<link rel="modulepreload" href="/chunk-12131.js">
13:30 - Integrity
- SHA
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