Chrome released loading=lazy for video and audio elements

Dustin Boston ·

Chrome 148 now supports lazy loading for video and audio elements. None of the other browsers support it yet. But, thanks to the power of the web, you can still add the attribute, and it will be silently ignored by all the other browsers. Here's the blurb from the release notes:

Adds the loading attribute to video and audio elements, letting developers defer media resource loading until the element is near the viewport using loading="lazy". This matches the existing lazy loading behavior for and elements, improving page load performance and reducing data usage.

They also shipped a new prompt API. Nobody's happy about that.