On 2012-10-30 10:22, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
Hi,
I mentioned this and it's somethign we are working on.
Basic idea: site provides list of resources that it uses and can be
cached for general improvements on the whole site. (We're seeing
load-time improvement from 50% - 300% in our testing. We are using it on
sites - mail.yandex.ru/prefetch.txt has an example).
The draft "spec" here is still very rough, but it shows what we've
implemented and some of what we think it is good for.
This is meant as input to the appcache/packaging/etc discussion, and may
or may not be something this group takes on.
cheers
I'm not a caching expert, but adding yet another mechanism (in addition
to HTTP caching and the HTML stuff) should be done with a lot of care.
Nits: *if* you want to add yet another manifest file, please consider
respecting <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785>.
Also: I would try to remove hacks / special cases. If there's a need to
declare resources that should be fetched without cookies, then we should
have a generic mechanism for that, not something special-cased for a
specific URI.
Best regards, Julian
