Gervase Markham wrote:
> > I'm already concerned about performance effects of the above candidate for
> > modem users -- these go out on every image request, right?
>
> Every request. The above is 167 bytes - which is 0.05 seconds on a 33.6k
> modem.
You mean 0.05 for 28.8? 33.6kbps modems are symmetric and a bit faster.
Anyway, we're on the slippery slope. 10 images, half a second, etc. What
happened to the idea of tailoring Accept based on the requesting tag?
The really slippery slope is the one where, in a year, Parkinson's Law inflates
the Accept header to 1K or worse. Broadband nirvana won't arrive in a year,
but I am concerned, based on many real precedents in large projects,
particularly in Mozilla, that we'll have undesirable Accept-header inflation.
Is there a way in principle to say at what length we would stop enumerating
MIME types, and go do something else (CC/PP?)?
> Given that HTTP requests are the only thing going out (to a first
> approximation) I think this is a reasonable size.
>
> Last orders! Any more for any more?
Just one: you are hereby knighted Guardian of the Accept Header, including its
reasonable length. Keep it small, comment on and communicate the trade-offs,
make my gray hairs few! Ok?
/be
