Jake Archibald
Jake Archibald is a Developer Advocate at Google for Google Chrome, specializing in web technologies such as JavaScript, Web APIs, and Performance Optimization. Jake is well-known for his expertise in Service Workers and Progressive Web Apps.
Jake shares his knowledge and insights through engaging talks at conferences and online platforms.
He is also an author of articles, contributing to Google Developers and other publications.
With a keen interest in web standards, browser internals, and web performance, Jake actively contributes to the advancement of the web development community.
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- Importing vs fetching JSON (October 22, 2025)
- The present and potential future of progressive image rendering (October 15, 2025)
- Fetch streams are great, but not for measuring upload/download progress (September 15, 2025)
- Making XML human-readable without XSLT (September 02, 2025)
- Give footnotes the boot (July 01, 2025)
- Animating zooming using CSS: transform order is important… sometimes (June 17, 2025)
- Firefox + custom elements + iframes bug (February 14, 2025)
- How should <selectedoption> work? (October 18, 2024)
- Video with alpha transparency on the web (August 05, 2024)
- Garbage collection and closures (July 30, 2024)