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  • Author Author: Matt
  • Date Created: 20 Aug 2019 2:56 PM Date Created
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August 2019 Site Update

Matt
Matt
20 Aug 2019

It's been a while since we rolled out any new features. There was a bug-fix and minor platform update earlier this month, but it didn't contain anything noteworthy that warranted a blog post from me image

 

Last night we deployed a fairly large update to the site, although the number of member-facing changes is relatively short. The one I'm most excited by is the lazy loading of images.. read on for more info!

 

Highlights

 

Lazy loading of images

 

When I first started looking at this earlier on in the year, I wanted to improve the page load performance, especially on mobile devices. Lazy loading images is very common these days; it will only load images that you can see on the page, and loads images 'below the fold' as you scroll down. Quite a lot of our pages on Community are image-heavy, so loading images like this makes a lot of sense & improves performance a tonne!

 

First, I found a decent JavaScript library and used that, but then saw that Google had native lazy-loading in a pre-release version of Chrome. It was expected to be available in Chrome 75, but was removed prior to release. It did make it into Chrome 76, initially turned off, then activated a few days later. Chrome 76 was released in early August, so it landed at just the right time for me to get the feature finished off for this site update. Content authors don't need to change how they work.. we make changes to the HTML when the page is rendered. Same for our main landing pages.

 

You shouldn't really notice any difference.. apart from (hopefully) the pages on Community loading faster!

 

Action widget moves with page

 

The Action widget will now track down the side of your content as you scroll. This should be especially useful for content authors, since links for Editing your content (etc) will be there without you needing to scroll up to the top of the page.

 

Fixes and Improvements

 

  • Change 'Past Roadtests' widget sort to order by end-date
  • Feedback and Support area translated into other languages
  • Add "micro:bit Projects" to "Build" nav drop-down
  • Facebook videos stopped working.. now fixed
  • Design Center images were sometimes missing
  • Fix sort order for Featured Search results (newest first)
  • Searching for product on our Newark store didn't work there was a quantity in the list of product IDs
  • "Contact Site Admin" link on site maintenance page now goes to a valid email account
  • For Dreamboard images, change the label from Choose File to Choose Image File

 

  • 6 SEO improvements
  • 4 anti-spam improvements
  • 13 other fixes and improvements
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  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 5 years ago in reply to cstanton +6
    It is good to know it isn't just me cstanton Wow, that works really well! I hovered over your name above until the profile preview appeared, then right clicked on your name and 'copy link location' under…
  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 5 years ago +5
    Great updates, thanks Matt and colleagues. Something I have difficulty sometimes is identifying a member using the @ symbol. Although this populates with a selection of possibilities it is not always obvious…
  • Matt
    Matt over 5 years ago +5
    Thanks for the heads up. We've disabled the lazy-loading of images within content on Community yesterday (5th Sept).. there were a bunch of edge cases that I hadn't considered & weren't picked up in testing…
  • Matt
    Matt over 5 years ago

    Thanks for the heads up. We've disabled the lazy-loading of images within content on Community yesterday (5th Sept).. there were a bunch of edge cases that I hadn't considered & weren't picked up in testing. I've re-worked the code over the past couple of days and we'll make sure it's behaving before enabling it in our next site update (due in the 2nd week of October). The Chrome lazy loading feature is great, but also having a way for older+other browsers to lazy-load has been the challenge.

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  • geralds
    geralds over 5 years ago

    Hi Matt ,

     

    With the Chrome browser, I have problems seeing the images.

    Some of these they are loading, I can see it, but the most images are invisible.

     

    For example also: my own images that I've uploaded last week, they are just marked as a link.

    https://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/2081/l/roadtest-the-raspberry-pi-4-model-b-2gb#comment-206340

    Yes, this can happen, because I I copied my post with that images from another link

    (https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-92640/l/raspberry-pi-4-model-b-default-gpio-pinout-with-poe-header#comment-… ) to this link above.

    But there is also the problem, some images are invisible and my own uploaded images are just marked as link.

    With the IE11 browser I haven't this problem.

    Before I wrote this message I cleaned the cache memory of the browsers.

     

    Best Regards

    Gerald

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  • Dudley
    Dudley over 5 years ago in reply to dubbie

    Hopefully I'll be able to upload my videos directly into a Blog now too, as it had seemed to stop working and I had to resort to making YouTube videos and inserting them. Next time I make a Blog I'll check.

    We have an issue with uploading videos at the moment image I'm looking into what is going wrong with it.

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  • Dudley
    Dudley over 5 years ago in reply to 14rhb

    I hovered over your name above until the profile preview appeared, then right clicked on your name and 'copy link location' under Mozilla Firefox, and then pasted that into this reply

     

    I do this all the time, it's by far the easiest way of @mentioning people image

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  • DAB
    DAB over 5 years ago

    I am always concerned about updates.

    I am excited about new features, but I worry that options I normally use might suddenly become hidden or fail to work.

     

    So far you have done a good job and commend the stability you maintain over the years.

     

    Well done.

     

    DAB

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