On 11/10/2013, at 15:15, Russell Leggett wrote: > Just wanted to point out a couple of previous attempts at something similar > to generic bundling and the reactions it got, because so far it hasn't panned > out. > > Way back in 2008, it was my one and only real contribution to the whatwg list > before getting a little frustrated and moving on: > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-July/015411.html
Brilliant, Yes! That's it! "if all js,css,and even images and other files could be zipped up or tarred, that would only require a single HTTP request. This could basically just add the files to the browser cache or other local storage mechanism so that requests for the resources would not need to make an extra trip" 2008? That's 5 looong years ago. > Then a year later, Alex Limi independently came up with a very similar > proposal: http://limi.net/articles/resource-packages/ > and actually got a version of it working in some branch of firefox: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529208 > And here's a couple of discussions on that proposal: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/MXeSYsawUgU > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-August/027582.html > > As you can see the resource packages attempt got dropped. Perhaps this > proposal will go through because it is tied to the module loader? It's sad. What happened? Why was it ditched? Was it, perhaps, too ahead of its time? Let's try again :-) -- ( Jorge )(); _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
