On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Alexander Limi <l...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > Good people of Webkit! > > We'd all like for the web to be faster, and therefore I'd love your feedback > on my proposal — it would be great to see support for this in additional > browsers, not just Firefox: > > http://limi.net/articles/resource-packages/ > > Summary: > What if there was a backwards compatible way to transfer all of the resources > that are used on every single page in your site — CSS, JS, images, anything > else — in a single HTTP request at the start of the first visit to the page? > This is what Resource Package support in browsers will let you do. > > Looking forward to hear your thoughts on this.
It seems like a browser will have to essentially stop rendering until it has finished downloading the entire .zip and examined it. This will most likely slow down the time taken to render parts of the page as they arrive. From the blog post: "A given browser will probably block downloading any resources until the lists of files that are available in resource packages have been accounted for — or there may be a way to do opportunistic requests or similar, we leave this up to the browser vendor unless there’s a compelling reason to specify how this should work." This also means that a browser would have to stop tokenizing the HTML when it hits the next <script src=""> tag, since it would be unable to know if the javascript was in the bundled zip or not. This seems to go against the idea that as much of the page be rendered as fast as possible. - James > > Thanks! > > -- > Alexander Limi · Firefox User Experience · http://limi.net > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
