Overhaul Time: Twitter’s Web Site Getting Faster
From The Telegraph:
The overhaul will also prepare the microblogging service for the next generation of web browsers by laying the ground for more interactive features.
“This new framework will help us rapidly develop new Twitter features, take advantage of new browser technology, and ultimately provide the best experience to as many people as possible,” said Twitter engineer Dan Webb in a blog post.The changes, which are currently being introduced across Twitter.com, will also do away with the “hashbang” symbol in its page addresses.
The “#!” symbol in Twitter URLs was used as to tell web browsers to fetch and render tweets requested by the user, but now much of that work will be handled by Twitter’s own servers.
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The new website removes a big JavaScript processing burden – turning raw tweet data into the HTML in which web pages are encoded – from the browser and lays it on Twitter’s servers.
“The bottom line is that [the old] architecture leads to slower performance because most of the code is being executed on our user’s machines rather than our own,” Mr Webb explained.
See Also: Improving performance on twitter.com (via Twitter Engineering Blog)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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