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What is INP and why you should care

Salma Alam-Naylor on March 12, 2024

On March 12th 2024, Google is launching a new Core Web Vital metric, Interaction to Next Paint (INP). INP will replace First Input Delay (FID) and ...
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Ben Halpern

Thank you for this.

If anybody wants to audit DEV and feel welcome!

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ProgramCrafter

This could be useful in situations where you have a queue of tasks to run (such as calls to an API on each keypress), and you want to give control back to the main thread regularly to allow the page to respond to further user interaction.

Feels like sites will be more and more like standalone applications which need to return control regularly... 😒

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Salma Alam-Naylor

The web is far too complex these days πŸ˜… But the possibilities are endless!

Swings and roundabouts I guess!