The advantage of using a single file over pre-fetching is that the site designer decides what should be fetched instead of the client trying to guess. The files could be still be streamed from within the tar file so the whole thing doesn't need to be downloaded before displaying in the browser.
l8r Aaron On Saturday, May 5, 2001, at 03:40 PM, Brandon wrote: > >> Didn't someone suggest a while back putting an entire web page or web >> site >> including images into a single tar file? The file could then be gzipped >> solving the compression, prefetching, and uneven dropout issues. > > I was offering prefetching as an alternative to just this idea. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
