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  2. Lazy loading - Wikipedia

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    Lazy loading (also known as asynchronous loading) is a technique used in computer programming, especially web design and web development, to defer initialization of an object until it is needed. It can contribute to efficiency in the program's operation if properly and appropriately used.

  3. Link prefetching - Wikipedia

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    This speeds up both the loading and rendering of web pages. Prefetching was first introduced in HTML5. Prefetching is accomplished through hints in web pages. These hints are used by the browser to prefetch links. Resources which can be prefetched include: JavaScript, CSS, image, audio, video, and web fonts.

  4. CSS - Wikipedia

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    To demonstrate specificity Inheritance Inheritance is a key feature in CSS; it relies on the ancestor-descendant relationship to operate. Inheritance is the mechanism by which properties are applied not only to a specified element but also to its descendants. Inheritance relies on the document tree, which is the hierarchy of XHTML elements in a page based on nesting. Descendant elements may ...

  5. Lazy initialization - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, lazy initialization is the tactic of delaying the creation of an object, the calculation of a value, or some other expensive process until the first time it is needed. It is a kind of lazy evaluation that refers specifically to the instantiation of objects or other resources.

  6. Flash of unstyled content - Wikipedia

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    The cascading nature of CSS rules encourages some browsers to wait until all the style datasets have been collected before applying them. With the advent of JavaScript libraries such as jQuery which can be employed to further define and apply the styling of a web page, flashes of unstyled content have also become more prominent. In an attempt ...

  7. Single-page application - Wikipedia

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    In a SPA, a page refresh never occurs; instead, all necessary HTML, JavaScript, and CSS code is either retrieved by the browser with a single page load, [1] or the appropriate resources are dynamically loaded and added to the page as necessary, usually in response to user actions.

  8. Help:User style - Wikipedia

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    This script and CSS makes the sidebar stay in the same position on the screen as you scroll. This may have undesirable side effects in Chrome; e.g., when viewing a page like the very common.css page you just edited to put this code in, the viewable content will become much shorter, and require vertical scrolling in a frame.

  9. Asynchronous module definition - Wikipedia

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    For production and deployment, developers can concatenate and minify JavaScript modules based on an AMD API into one file, the same as traditional JavaScript. AMD provides some CommonJS interoperability. It allows for using a similar exports and require() interface in the code, although its own define() interface is more basal and preferred. [1]