Chrome 148 introduces declarative partial updates for out-of-order HTML streaming
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Summary
Chrome 148 introduces declarative partial updates, enabling out-of-order streaming of HTML content. This allows web developers to stream HTML fragments in any order, improving perceived performance for modern web apps. The article explains the new HTML insertion and streaming methods available for testing, covering how developers can leverage these capabilities to build faster, more responsive web applications by breaking free from traditional top-to-bottom HTML delivery.
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HTML, despite all its advances, is still delivered in-order in a top-to-bottom fashion with little regard for when content is ready or when the user consumes it.
CSS lets you change the ordering of content visually, but the underlying HTML delivery remains sequential.
Learn about new out-of-order streaming capabilities and the renewed HTML insertion and streaming methods available for testing from Chrome 148
