The conversation in this thread has caused me to revisit the idea that we should, as a community, come up with some shared principles around what it means to do frontend professionally. Rules of thumb to help cement the values that anchor the best work; a few straw-person ideas:https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1190023701531701248 …
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1.) If you are not a frontend specialist, choose the most conservative tools (e.g., semantic HTML + CSS) that can plausibly do the job.
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2.) the experience of the user matters more than the experience of the developer
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3.) frontenders must value and work to improve P75 and P90 latency as much, or more, than P50 or P25
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Replying to @slightlylate
Hi Alex - what does P75, P90, P50, etc. mean? Never heard those terms before.
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Replying to @ChrisFerdinandi @slightlylate
It's percentile notation; 75th percentile, 90th, 50th, etc.
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Replying to @robcresswell @slightlylate
So in this context, percentile of what?
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Replying to @ChrisFerdinandi @robcresswell
Latency. That is, the higher the P-value, the slower the experience. The idea is that we have a responsibility to help those in the toughest situation, not to focus on the median user. Turns out this is good for business, but it's counter-intuitive that this is true.
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Replying to @slightlylate @robcresswell
Oh you don't have to sell me on it! Just like more accessible sites convert better for people without accessibility concerns, I don't doubt this is true for a second. So P10 is fast, P90 is slow, P50 is in the middle? Thanks!
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