Microsoft seeks developer feedback about controlling performance of embedded content on Edge

You will soon be able to control the embedded content resource consumption

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Microsoft wants to enable developers control over embedded content on your page on Edge

Microsoft has announced a new feature proposal aimed at giving developers more control over the performance impact of embedded web content. The company is seeking feedback from developers to refine and enhance this feature, which is designed to improve the overall performance of websites and native applications.

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The new feature introduces DocumentPolicy configurations that allow developers to constrain the performance impact of embedded content, such as third-party iframes or shared components from other teams within an organization. By minimizing the performance impact of embedded content, developers can enhance the user experience and ensure their applications run smoothly.

The proposal includes three main categories of document policies:

  1. Basic: This category encompasses fundamental web development best practices to ensure websites are optimized for performance across various environments. Constraints include limits on oversized assets, flagging unzipped assets, and uncompressed resources.
  2. Early-Script: This category focuses on JavaScript development best practices to minimize performance issues before user interaction begins. It includes capping JavaScript resources loaded initially, serving JavaScript with constrained content-length headers, and requiring animations to run on the compositor thread.
  3. Globals: This category entails imposing limits on overall media and system resource usage during interactions to help prevent websites from over-consuming resources and degrading user experiences.

Microsoft aims to achieve two primary goals with this proposal: to make it possible for developers to control the performance impact of embedded content easily and to provide information on performance violations so developers can improve the user experience.

The company is encouraging developers to provide feedback on this new feature to help refine and enhance its capabilities. For more information and to share feedback, visit the Microsoft Edge Dev Blog.

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