Re: [whatwg] Caching of identical files from different URLs using checksums

2012-06-07 Thread Ian Hickson
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Sven Neuhaus wrote: Hello, as of 2012, some websites are including popular javascript libraries from CDNs, like Google's. The benefits are: * Traffic savings for the site operator because the javascript libraries are downloaded from the CDN and not from the site

Re: [whatwg] Caching of identical files from different URLs using checksums

2012-06-07 Thread Ashley Sheridan
Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Sven Neuhaus wrote: Hello, as of 2012, some websites are including popular javascript libraries from CDNs, like Google's. The benefits are: * Traffic savings for the site operator because the javascript libraries are downloaded from

Re: [whatwg] Caching of identical files from different URLs using checksums

2012-02-19 Thread Julian Reschke
On 2012-02-18 14:45, Sven Neuhaus wrote: ... Stop here. That's not what the fragment identifier is for. Instead, you could specify the hash as a separate attribute on the containing element. The relevant section from RFC 3986 reads: The fragment identifier component of a URI allows

Re: [whatwg] Caching of identical files from different URLs using checksums

2012-02-18 Thread Sven Neuhaus
Am 17.02.12 19:05, schrieb Julian Reschke: On 2012-02-17 09:42, Sven Neuhaus wrote: Hello, as of 2012, some websites are including popular javascript libraries from CDNs, like Google's. The benefits are: * Traffic savings for the site operator because the javascript libraries are

Re: [whatwg] Caching of identical files from different URLs using checksums

2012-02-18 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
Þann lau 18.feb 2012 13:45, skrifaði Sven Neuhaus: The relevant section from RFC 3986 reads: The fragment identifier component of a URI allows indirect identification of a secondary resource by reference to a primary resource and additional identifying information. The identified

[whatwg] Caching of identical files from different URLs using checksums

2012-02-17 Thread Sven Neuhaus
Hello, as of 2012, some websites are including popular javascript libraries from CDNs, like Google's. The benefits are: * Traffic savings for the site operator because the javascript libraries are downloaded from the CDN and not from the site that uses them * If enough sites refer to the

Re: [whatwg] Caching of identical files from different URLs using checksums

2012-02-17 Thread Julian Reschke
On 2012-02-17 09:42, Sven Neuhaus wrote: Hello, as of 2012, some websites are including popular javascript libraries from CDNs, like Google's. The benefits are: * Traffic savings for the site operator because the javascript libraries are downloaded from the CDN and not from the site that

Re: [whatwg] Caching of identical files from different URLs using checksums

2012-02-17 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 19:05 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: On 2012-02-17 09:42, Sven Neuhaus wrote: Hello, as of 2012, some websites are including popular javascript libraries from CDNs, like Google's. The benefits are: * Traffic savings for the site operator because the javascript

Re: [whatwg] Caching of identical files from different URLs using checksums

2012-02-17 Thread Scott González
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.ukwrote: But wouldn't this all break one of the key reasons why shared libraries are useful? If I'm using a shared Javascript library hosted on Google Code, for example, and there's an urgent security update, I'd want it