Hasty Treat - The Weird and Wonderful <link> Tag

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the <link> tag — why it's weird and wonderful, and what you can do with it!

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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.
• <link rel="preconnect" href="[https://fonts.googleapis.com](https://fonts.googleapis.com/)">
• <link rel="preconnect" href="[https://fonts.gstatic.com](https://fonts.gstatic.com/)" crossorigin>

13:01 - Module

• <link rel="modulepreload" href="/chunk-12131.js">

13:30 - Integrity

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