Hasty Treat - The Weird and Wonderful Link Tag

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the tag — why it’s weird and wonderful, and what you can do with it! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. 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 Syntax 373: Hasty Treat - The Surprisingly Exciting World of 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. 13:01 - Module 13:30 - Integrity SHA Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram

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