On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:28 PM, timeless <timel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Gregg Tavares <g...@google.com> wrote: > > I'm sorry if I'm not familiar with all the details of how the widgets > spec > > is going but the specs encourage comment so I'm commenting :-) > > > > It seems like widgets have 2 uses > > > > #1) As a way to package an HTML5 app that can be downloaded similar to a > > native > > executable > > > > #2) As a way to package an HTML5 app that can be embedded in a page but > > easily > > distributed as a single file (ie, do what Flash / Silverlight / > Unity3D > > currently do except based in HTML5 / EMCAScript) > > > > Use #2 would benefit tremendously if like Flash / Sliverlight / Unity3D > the > > application could start as soon as it has enough info to start as > supposed > > to > > having to wait for the entire package to download. > > > > To accomplish that goal requires using a format that can be streamed. > > Zip is not such a format. Zip files store their table of contents at the > end > > of > > the file. They can have multiple table of contents but only the last one > > found is valid. That means the entire file has to be downloaded before a > UA > > can > > correctly figure out what's in the file. > > > > That's incorrect. Zip is streamable. Go read the format. > I have read the format in extreme detail as well as implemented plugins that support asset streaming for Firefox, Safari, IE and Chrome. It's not streamable.
